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Albert Einstein

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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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Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

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04Undated

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

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05Undated

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence

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06Undated

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

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07Undated

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

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08Undated

The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capitalist. The essential point about this process is the relation between what the worker produces and what he is paid, both measured in terms of real value. Insofar as the labor contract is "free," what the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs. It is important to understand that even in theory the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

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09Undated

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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10Undated

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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I see my life in terms of music.

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12Undated

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

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Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

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If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.

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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

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23Undated

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

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