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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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"Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time."
    -- Alfred Edward Housman
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
    -- Alben W. Barkley
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
    -- Benjamin Franklin


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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.Get Image

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Get Image

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Get Image

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.Get Image

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.Get Image




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