Albert Einstein Quotes
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Quotes to Explore
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.
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It's more like giving people a taste of what the tour will be like. It's getting people to hear the music to a different sound … We remixed some of the songs so they sound totally different. It's really energetic.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
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I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
