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"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."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"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."

"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."

"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."

"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
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