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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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"If you are honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out."
    -- Kate Spade
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    -- Theodor Seuss Geisel
"A man is known by the company he avoids."
    -- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer


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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Get Image

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.Get Image

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.Get Image

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.Get Image

Ideas won't keep something must be done about them.Get Image




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