Albert Einstein Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.
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Nothing in life is ritual.
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You're on a bike ride or picnic with your family, and it looks like leisure, but on the inside you are keeping track of everybody's emotional temperature, and did I pack this, what are the directions, how much time are we going to be here, do we have anything for dinner? It's like a toilet running all the time.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
