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Completely Quotes by Umberto Eco
- The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting…
- I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
- People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
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- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
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- Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann
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- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams