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Umberto Eco
“three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.”
Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose

“post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier. After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman.”
Galen of Pergamum

“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”
John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Edward L. Bernays
“The average citizen is the world’s most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own “logic-proof compartments,” his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.”
Edward L. Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion

Roger Bacon
“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
Roger Bacon

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