Umberto Eco Quotes
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
Yang Lan
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
Randy Pausch
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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
Livy
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
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Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
William A. Niskanen
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
