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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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"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might."
    -- Alfred A. Montapert
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
    -- Barbara De Angelis
"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary."
    -- Antonin Artaud


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Quotes about Life

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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