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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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"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

"Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds."
-- Benjamin Harrison

"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
-- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

-- Bertrand Russell

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

-- Bernard Berenson

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say 'What is my exciting thing for today' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

-- Barbara Charline Jordan

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