Albert Einstein Quotes
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
Quotes to Explore
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate. (p. 42)
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
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Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
