Albert Einstein Quotes
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.
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We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
