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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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"Getting smart on crime does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. Being smart on crime means using the time and resources we now spend on offenders more productively to reduce their odds of re-offending."
    -- Kamala Harris
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
    -- Abraham Lincoln
"Life is not orderly. No matter how hard we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce."
    -- Natalie Goldberg


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After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for Finding Your Roots, it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves. I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth.Get Image

Finding Your Roots is a show where you voluntarily provide a great deal of information about your family, making you quite vulnerable. The assumption is that they will never be dishonest but they will respect your willingness to participate and not look to include things you think would embarrass your family.Get Image




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