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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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Harvesting my resolution to find comfort in a world out of my control, I am blessed for the non-material and material fortune surrounding me.

-- Talya Herring

He does not possess wealth it possesses him.

-- Benjamin Franklin

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

-- Kurt Cobain

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

-- Jack Handey

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

-- Anthony Starr

[on Jack Nicholson] Jack! You see how angry he gets in a scene? Unbelievably scary! He can not stop, he goes into a kind of it, you dunno whether he is acting any more!

-- Roman Polanski

Every network-enabled device can be hijacked and made to send network requests that flood the servers and deny service to legitimate requests or crash the servers.

-- Mark Heckman

If Palestine were to lay down their guns tomorrow, there would be no war. If Israel were to lay down theirs, there would be no Israel. Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Israelis.

-- Mayan Annie Rothstein

An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

-- Baroness Orczy

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