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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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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

"He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne."
-- Assyrian Proverb

"There is still a lot to learn, and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful."
-- Robin Williams

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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

-- Edson Arantes do Nascimento

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I had to be successful to justify my parents' sacrifice for me.

-- Robert Herjavec

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

-- Bruce Barton

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I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

-- Artemus Ward

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Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

-- Andrew Schneider

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Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some su

-- Aleister Crowley

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

-- Aeschylus

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