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Quote by Umberto Eco
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men wh

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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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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But now 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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Truth
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – Umberto Eco

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Storytelling
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

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Storytelling

I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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Storytelling

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Storytelling

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. – Alan Watts

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Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. – Robert Taft

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Government

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. – Bhagavad Gita

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Ignorance & Stupidity

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. – Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner

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Healing