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"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

"I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems. All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could have easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!"
-- Luigi Mangione

"As they sat in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking."
-- Duane Keith Davis

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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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It is time to end mass incarceration. This includes legalizing marijuana, sentencing reforms, and abolishing private prisons. With the addition of job training and education, these actions will reduce crime and help build healthy communities.

-- Kamala Harris

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With guns, you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

-- Malala Yousafiai

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Re-introducing state-sponsored discrimination into higher education is dangerous because the policy actually works to make the system more unequal. Allowing quotas, including those based on race, back into higher education will only mask and perpetuate existing inequality. Thus, Democratic policies aimed at addressing inequality are not only ineffective, they also act as a tool of division-- pitting Californians against one another and enshrining

-- Neel Kashkari

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