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First Quotes by Umberto Eco
- In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
- You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you…
- I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the…
- Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed…
- the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which…
- If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
- The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
- On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of…
- I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
- I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong