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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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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
-- Aesop

"Every rule has an exception to the rule. So what is the exception to the rule that every rule has an exception to the rule? The rule itself because it does not have an exception."
-- Eliezer Morgenstern

"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success."
-- Albert Pike

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May you live every day of your life.Get Image

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbor.Get Image

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.Get Image

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.Get Image

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.Get Image

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