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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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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
-- Jim Rohn

"If you listen to Carly Fiorina for more than ten minutes straight, you develop a massive headache."
-- Donald Trump

"I'm not worried about the culture issue as much, because there is a very large skateboard industry. You can define it in hundreds of millions of dollars. You have to figure out how to get some percentage share of it. Had you shown me that you've found that model and that you were starting at $250,000 in sales and you have a path to $20 million, and all you need is my gasoline in the form of dollars to pour on it, I would have invested here today."
-- Kevin O'Leary

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If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

-- Jack Handey

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If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

-- Ayn Rand

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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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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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We make war that we may live in peace.

-- Aristotle Plato

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

-- Aristophanes

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To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

-- Ancient Chinese Warlord

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It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to

-- Alexander Hamilton Stephens

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