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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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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
-- Roman Polanski

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
-- Plutarch

"During principal photography, I felt myself going to the studio and being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album. I kept it under wraps, and now the album is finished. It's bananas. It's an 'inspired by' album. It's inspired by Straight Outta Compton, we're gonna call the album Compton: The Soundtrack. I'm really proud of this."
-- Dr Dre

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Adlai Stevenson Quotes

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.Get Image

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.Get Image

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.Get Image

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.Get Image

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.Get Image

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