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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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"I was born Les Gold, I will die Les Gold. My children have the same last name. We did not change it because we are in the pawn business, that is actually my real name."
    -- Les Gold
"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption."
    -- Bertrand Russell
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level."
    -- Bertrand Russell


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Alex Haley Quotes

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning; no matter what attainment in life, there is the most disquieting loneliness.Get Image

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.Get Image

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.Get Image

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.Get Image

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.Get Image




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