Albert Einstein Quotes
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
