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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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"Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
-- Albert Einstein

"Just like the Sukkah, the temporary hut, our lives are about integrity."
-- Talya Herring

"I chose to be a tiny bit mad, but after awhile, I was okay."
-- Aldie Padernos

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All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.

-- Asoka

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If Palestine were to lay down their guns tomorrow, there would be no war. If Israel were to lay down theirs, there would be no Israel. Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Israelis.

-- Mayan Annie Rothstein

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

-- Marie vonEbner Eschenbach

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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

-- Alex Haley

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