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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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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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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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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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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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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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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.
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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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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.