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"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
"I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems. All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could have easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!"
    -- Luigi Mangione
"As they sat in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking."
    -- Duane Keith Davis

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"If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
    -- Alan B. Watts
"The latest round of wrangling between Greece and its European creditors has demonstrated yet again that countries with such disparate economies should never have entered a currency union."
    -- Ashoka Mody
"Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight."
    -- Bob Marley


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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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