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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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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
    -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
"Honor has not to be won, it must only not be lost."
    -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit."
    -- Harrison Ford


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Quotes about Surprise

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.
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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.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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