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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.