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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – 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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History
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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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Father
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard

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Art

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Art

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cant eat it. – Leo Tolstoy

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Art

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

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Who that knows the trail from Mill Valley to Bolinas, by way of Willow Camp, can ever forget the enchanting beauty of the panorama that unfolds before the vision? The tenderest tenderfoot forgets the toil of climbing in contemplation of its delights and surprises. – Eufina C. Tompkins, “Story of Two California Artists,” in Sunset, June 1904

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Hiking

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. – Albert Einstein

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Environment

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes Americas role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future. – Mitt Romney

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Future

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens

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Self-Discovery