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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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"Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
    -- Alex Haley
"May a diseased yak squat in your hot tub."
    -- Carnac The Magnificent
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
    -- Alfred Whitney Griswold


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Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoire)
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If Cupid misses the heart, he touches the body fatally. (Si Cupidon rate le cœur, - Il touche mortellement le corps)
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Race is a big part of what South Africa is today--we're still dealing with race relations, and it's a huge part of what we are. I'm a product of that existence, of that world. My racial identity has been reclassified at least three times just in my lifetime, so it's...very important to me.
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I hold that few human activities provide an individual with a greater sense of personal gratification than the assembling of a collection of art objects that appeal to him and that he feels have true and lasting beauty.
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You start getting crankier as you get older. Next week, I'm signing an executive order to get off my lawn.
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If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
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I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.
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The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
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