Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. - Umberto Eco

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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

Umberto Eco

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Book, Excess, Menaced, Produces, Silence

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Atheist, Believe, Men, Nothing, Stop

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Balanced, Four, Mad, Mixture, Normality, Stupid

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Idiot, Ifs, Interact, Life, Things, Things Change

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

Affairs, Facebook, Fake, Loss, People, Veritable

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Believe, Dad, Fathers Day, Odd, Teach, Wisdom

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Harold Lederman

There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander.

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Charles Caleb Colton

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

Men, Merit, Prison, Purpose

Johannes Tauler

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

Apt, Demise, Fall, Grace, Harm, Lose

Zora Neale Hurston

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Dies, Git, Man, Men, Old, Tuh

Walter Savage Landor