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Quote by Umberto Eco
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people la

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

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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Nature
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. – Umberto Eco

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Experience
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Learning

The best part of learning any profession, when youre really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much. – Diane Cilento

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Learning

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. – Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle

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Learning

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. – Jet Li

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Learning

Random Quotes

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. Im phobic about it. So when Im writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me. – Anthony Horowitz

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Fear

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didnt know that at first. – Steve Lacy

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alone

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. – Oscar Wilde

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Men

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. – Steve Jobs

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Computers