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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.