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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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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit."
    -- Battaille
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
    -- Anthony Trollope
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
    -- Aesop


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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Get Image

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Get Image

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Get Image

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.Get Image

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.Get Image




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