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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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"Optimization hinders evolution."
    -- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer
"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them."
    -- Ayn Rand
"I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moment"
    -- Anne Frank


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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.Get Image

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Get Image

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.Get Image

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.Get Image

All movements go too far.Get Image




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