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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
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"The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer."
"They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests. ....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood."
"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."
"It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it."
"Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit."
"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
"I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history."
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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