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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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"What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever."
-- Axel Monthe

"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad."
-- Alfred North Whitehead

"Race is a big part of what South Africa is today--we're still dealing with race relations, and it's a huge part of what we are. I'm a product of that existence, of that world. My racial identity has been reclassified at least three times just in my lifetime, so it's...very important to me."
-- Trevor Noah

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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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