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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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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
-- Bill Cosby

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-- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

"The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
-- Anatole France

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

-- Auguste Rodin

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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

-- Auguste Renoir

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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

-- Atwell

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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

-- Assyrian Proverb

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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!

-- Arthur Schnabel

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

-- Arthur Ashe

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Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

-- Art Buchwald

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