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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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"Near is and hard to fathom, the God; yet, where there is danger, groweth salvation as well."
    -- Friedrich Holderlin
"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought. Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land. Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand."
    -- Aristophanes
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
    -- Ayn Rand


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Barbara Tuchman Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Get Image

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.Get Image

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Get Image

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.Get Image

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.Get Image




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