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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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"Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you."
    -- Amanda Medinger
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money"
    -- Ayn Rand
"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
    -- Bertrand Russell


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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.Get Image

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.Get Image

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than angeGet Image

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Get Image

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.Get Image




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