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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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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
-- Aristotle Plato

"The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked"
-- Andrew Schneider

"What one fool can do, another can."
-- Ancient Simian Proverb

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A S Neill Quotes

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.Get Image

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.Get Image

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.Get Image

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.Get Image

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