Umberto Eco Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
