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"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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"Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?"
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"It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil."
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"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."
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"Like any value, empathy must be acted upon."
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"Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict."
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"Do not exchange your soul for money."
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"I won't give 10 dollars for fucking pornography, I will give them for something which will help me to develop..."
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"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"
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"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
War
"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
Emotional
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
Life
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
Civilization
"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
Values
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
Doubt
"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
Curiosity
"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."
Cultural
"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."
Talent
"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
Creativity
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