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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
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- Albert Einstein
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- Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1879 to 1955; Wikidata Q937, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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