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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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"Our debt is the runaway train that has to be stopped without more band-aid measures like raising the debt ceiling. We can't just print more money. But cutting the air show indicates not merely an indifference to good economic sense, but an indifference to the collective will of the public."
    -- Alan McCornack
"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."
    -- Alfred Hitchcock
"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written."
    -- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer


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Alexander Hamilton Quotes

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny, their figure deformity.Get Image

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.Get Image

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even Get Image

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.Get Image

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Get Image




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