Umberto Eco Quotes
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
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There is no road, the road is made by walking.
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For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a bit like reading the second half of 'Pale Fire': one is confronted by a content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
