Albert Einstein Quotes
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic idea and got the plots and everything, but I wasn't sure who the audience was. I exist in this other world - in the book publishing and magazine world of people who would make fun of this project. We were driving home after two weeks in Maine, and we stopped in a gas station in Massachusetts and saw that Snooki had just been arrested. It was a surreal moment. My last few weeks were spent trying to get in this person's head, and there she was in on the cover of the New York Post .
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As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
