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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
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Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?
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Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
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Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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My mind is my laboratory.
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The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.