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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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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
-- Aristotle Plato

"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."
-- Jonathan Swift

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I can see that some of you have higher expectations of me but well... I am just human. I will keep my standards high, I will enjoy my time on tour and keep working hard. At the end of the day that is all I can control, my effort and engagement.

-- Iga Swiatek

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It's not enough to just connect people, we have to make sure those connections are positive. It's not enough to just give people a voice, we have to make sure people aren't using it to hurt people or spread misinformation. It's not enough to give people control of their information, we have to make sure developers they've given it to are protecting it too.

-- Mark Zuckerberg

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People always talk about gun control and how things need to change, but nothing ever does. And that is so frustrating.

-- Carly Novell

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

-- Alan Rickman

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Harvesting my resolution to find comfort in a world out of my control, I am blessed for the non-material and material fortune surrounding me.

-- Talya Herring

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I'm just a neurotic freak who has to control everything.

-- Sky Williams

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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

-- Harrison Ford

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Can I say that we will never use facial recognition technology for any other purposes? Absolutely not. If we decided to use it in different ways we will continue to provide people transparency about that and we will continue to provide control.

-- Erin Egan

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