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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmle

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

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In the United States theres a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. – Umberto Eco

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they arent trying to teach us. – Umberto Eco

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. – June Jordan

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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. – Alphonse de Lamartine, “Marseillaise of Peace,” 1841

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Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. – Gerald R. Ford

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell

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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. – Alfred Adler

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Nixons full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the countrys history. – Conrad Black

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