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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 was pretty sure he'd found a loophole, and he was determined to exploit it to his full advantage. He would communicate with the world and still not technically break his vow, and it was all thanks to the wonder of technology, a chance trip to town, and a regional governmental initiative to link villages via wireless transmission. So he smuggled his new tablet computer into the monastery and began to blog. His vow of silence intact and complete"
-- Ken Grandlund

"Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow."
-- Andrew Schneider

"You can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed, but why can't you be simply whelmed?"
-- Robert Burns

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Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

-- Agatha Christie

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The world is round; it has no point.

-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

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Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

-- Adolf Hitler

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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

-- Adlai Stevenson

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.

-- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

-- Adam Smith

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Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

-- Abraham Maslow

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

-- Abraham Lincoln

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