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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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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
-- Ben Jonson

"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The other week Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he didn't know whether or not I was a Christian. And I was taken aback. But fortunately my faith teaches us forgiveness. So, Governor Walker, salam alaikum."
-- Barack Hussein Obama

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You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

-- Mike Trout

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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

-- Carlos Castaneda

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

-- Alice Walker

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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

-- Alan Turing

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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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