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The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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The place of the expert is on tap not on top.
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
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We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow.
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Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
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What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
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Nothing happens til something moves.
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Where there is love, there is no imposition.
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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
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Common sense needs constant reappraisal.
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It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
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If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.