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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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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"I remember hearing that you're supposed to be able to see the Great Wall of China from the moon. But that has got to be bollocks because even as I stood right next to this bit, I had problems seeing it."
    -- Karl Pilkington
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."
    -- Alexander Hamilton


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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Get Image

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.Get Image

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Get Image

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.Get Image

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Get Image




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