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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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"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
-- Bob Dylan

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-- Jim Rohn

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-- Albert Einstein

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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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