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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
-- Aristotle Plato

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
-- Mark Twain

"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
-- Luigi Mangione

"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
-- Luigi Mangione

"I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems. All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could have easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!"
-- Luigi Mangione

"As they sat in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking."
-- Duane Keith Davis

"They want to put me in jail for life? That is just something I got to do."
-- Duane Keith Davis

"I sang because they promised I would not be prosecuted."
-- Duane Keith Davis

"I would rather be poor than do anything besides YouTube."
-- Jimmy Donaldson

"Because many women are living into their 90s or beyond it is more important than ever to maximize Social Security benefits."
-- Lorna Sabbia

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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

-- Mother Teresa

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

-- Andrew Mellon

I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.

-- Blaise Pascal

Nothing is forever. The universe, the galaxy, the solar system, the sun, Earth... every species fades away in time. We individual people are very small and very temporary parts of the big picture.

-- John Coleman

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

-- Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

-- Mother Teresa

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

-- Brenda Ueland

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

-- Bruce Sterling

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