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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 think in generalities, but we live in detail."
-- Alfred North Whitehead

"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."
-- Anthony de Mello

"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

-- Bernard Berenson

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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

-- Bernard Avishai

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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

-- Ben Harper

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