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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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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones."
    -- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
    -- Alfred Hitchcock
"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."
    -- African Proverb

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The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.Get Image
One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.Get Image
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.Get Image
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.Get Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher and a learner.Get Image



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