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The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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The leaves and the light are one.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.