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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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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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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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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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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Bullies always have another target.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
