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What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
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While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer.
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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.
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Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
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Regarding sex education: no secrets!
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Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
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Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.
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It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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Those who staying with the wrong reward, long enough will get problem.
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.