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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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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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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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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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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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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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Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
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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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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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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
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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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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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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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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
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Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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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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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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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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The stupid are invincible.