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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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"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-- Aristotle Plato

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
-- Alvin Toffler

"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
-- Albert Camus

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

-- Anais Nin

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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

-- Alphonse Karr

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

-- Alice Walker

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No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death.

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

-- Alexandre Dumas

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