"The mobile phone... is a tool for those……" — Umberto Eco
"The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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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…
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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…
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More Doctors Quotes
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one of 1,718 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim…
— Isaac Asimov
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
— Isaac Asimov
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We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But…
— Julian Assange
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
— Enid Bagnold
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did…
— Christian Bale
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
— Martha Beck
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with…
— Donald Berwick
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You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your…
— Gordon Bethune
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
— Hugo Black
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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
— Aeschylus
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