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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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