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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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    -- Raymond Kurzweil
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders."
    -- Ben Stein
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
    -- Anais Nin


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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!
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Let's be clear. This is a nation founded by immigrants. Unless, you know, your history is of your ancestors being kidnapped and brought over on a slave ship, unless you are Native American, your people are immigrants.
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I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And who is in charge?'
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As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
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People with a history of success and hard work are more likely to be successful and work hard in the future.
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I bet at least 1 person in the history of the world actually thought that their car wrote "Wash Me" on itself as a cry for help to its owner.
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The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago. It's not a utopian world. It's essentially like a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world.
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A photograph is always yesterday's news. It is only a moment of history, moving deeper into time, even as we watch it recede into the darkness of our lost memories.
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