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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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"The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days."
    -- Berta Buxton
"What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here."
    -- Alfred A. Montapert
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
    -- Anna Quindlen


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Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.Get Image

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.Get Image




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