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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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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
    -- Beatrix Potter
"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
    -- Bertrand Russell
"In 1930, four men went topless to Coney Island and were arrested."
    -- Scout Willis


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Annie Dillard Quotes

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.Get Image

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.Get Image

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.Get Image

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.Get Image

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.Get Image




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