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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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"[on Harrison Ford] Often when Harrison read a line, it was a different reading than I anticipated, but it worked. Somehow, it was more inspiring or original than what I had in mind."
    -- Roman Polanski
"Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!"
    -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members."
    -- David Coblitz


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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Get Image

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.Get Image

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.Get Image

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.Get Image

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of courseGet Image




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