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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

  Albert Einstein1879–1955

• It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

  Winston Churchill1874–1965

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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