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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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"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."
-- Aesop

"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
-- Albert Einstein

"Let us speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity."
-- Kamala Harris

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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.

-- Ben Stein

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Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

-- Becky Alunan

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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

-- Basil W. Maturin

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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

-- Barry Switzer

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Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.

-- Barry Schwartz

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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

-- Barbara Kingsolver

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

-- Barbara Hall

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

-- Barbara Hall

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