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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 car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
-- Andrew H. Malcolm

"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forg"
-- Albert Einstein

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
-- Ayn Rand

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.Get Image

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Get Image

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Get Image

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.Get Image

An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.Get Image

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