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“I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he’s almost always a lunatic.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum: A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

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“Nothing can dispel from my mind the most reassuring thought that this world is the creation of a shadowy god whose shadow I prolong. Faith leads to Absolute Optimism.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum: A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

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“All the world’s follies,” he replied, “turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world’s follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility.” Then”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum: A Playful Metafictional Mystery About the Act of Reading

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“From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences.”
― Adam Kay, This Is Going To Hurt

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“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart