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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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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
-- Arnold Bennett

"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life."
-- Andrew Schneider

"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
-- Jonathan Swift

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Alexis Carrel Quotes

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.Get Image

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Get Image

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Get Image

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmoniousGet Image

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.Get Image

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