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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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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
    -- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife."
    -- Andrew Schneider
"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
    -- George Steiner


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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.Get Image

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.Get Image

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.Get Image

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.Get Image

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.Get Image




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