Quote by Umberto Eco
There are more people than you think who want to have a challengin

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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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – 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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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. – Immanuel Kant

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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. – Gail Simmons

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Another way of judging the value of a prophets religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. – Ingmar Bergman

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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them dont even get printed. – Bob Uecker

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