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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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The stupid are invincible.
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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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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.
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Be a voice not an echo.
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A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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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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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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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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I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.