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Umberto Eco has 276 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
— Abdallah II
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by…
— Yasser Arafat
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
— Yasser Arafat
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
— Yasser Arafat
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…
— Francois Mauriac
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The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus.…
— Rajneesh
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All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children…
— Barack Obama
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To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes…
— David McIntyre
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No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and…
— Paulinus of Nola
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Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
— Yasser Arafat
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