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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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"Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer."
    -- Leon Uris
"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
    -- John Updike
"My identity is not my obstacle. My identity is my superpower. Because the truth is, I am what the world looks like. You are what the world looks like."
    -- America Ferrera


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Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotes

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test.Get Image

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.Get Image

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Get Image

What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.Get Image

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.Get Image




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