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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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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
    -- Alfred North Whitehead
"We need to be competitive; we need to be in the hunt. We're not, but we can be."
    -- Neel Kashkari
"They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo."
    -- Andrew Schneider


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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Get Image

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.Get Image

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Get Image

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.Get Image

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Get Image




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