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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

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"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the"
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Hillary Clinton counts on the fact that people are uninformed."
-- Ben Carson

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."
-- Jonathan Swift

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A J Liebling Quotes

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.Get Image

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.Get Image

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.Get Image

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.Get Image

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.Get Image

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