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Umberto Eco Quotes

If culture did not filter, it would be inane? as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

Umberto Eco

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