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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 nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation."
    -- Barack Hussein Obama
"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal."
    -- Benjamin Disraeli
"There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart."
    -- Andrew Schneider


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Alan B Watts Quotes

According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than Get Image

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.Get Image

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Get Image

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.Get Image

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.Get Image




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