Umberto Eco Quotes
After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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…no European whore’s mock-respectability.
Anthony Burgess
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
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We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: 'In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.'
Anton Chekhov
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If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.
Martin Lawrence
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You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.
Max Levchin
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I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.
Clayton Christensen
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I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
Joanna Going
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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
A. C. Benson
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
Jimmy Buffett
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We need to secure the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.
Matt Rosendale
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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
Umberto Eco