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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
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But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
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If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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I love Humanity but I hate humans.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Experience alone can decide on truth.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
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Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
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Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
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Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake.
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.