Albert Einstein Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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I support collective bargaining everywhere.
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Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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I swim three times a week.
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When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was my version of looking for Easter eggs. In my house, Easter lasted forever.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
