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But Could Not Our Situation Be Compared To One Of A Menacing Epidemic? People Are Unable To View This Situation In Its True Light, For Their Eyes Are Blinded By Passion. General Fear And Anxiety Create Hatred And Aggressiveness. The Adaptation To Warlike Aims And Activities Has Corrupted The Mentality Of Man; As A Result, Intelligent, Objective And Humane Thinking Has Hardly Any Effect And Is Even Suspected And Persecuted As Unpatriotic.

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But Could Not Our Situation Be Compared To One Of A Menacing Epidemic? People Are Unable To View This Situation In Its True Light, For Their Eyes Are Blinded By Passion. General Fear And Anxiety Create Hatred And Aggressiveness. The Adaptation To Warlike Aims And Activities Has Corrupted The Mentality Of Man; As A Result, Intelligent, Objective And Humane Thinking Has Hardly Any Effect And Is Even Suspected And Persecuted As Unpatriotic.

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Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

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A Desk, Some Pads, A Pencil, And A Large Basket -- To Hold All Of Mu Mistakes.

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In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

Concern For Man Himself Must Always Constitute The Chief Objective Of All Technological Effort

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A Brave Man, Whose Only Fault Was Being A Woman.

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If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

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You Can't Use An Old Map To Explore A New World.

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My Opinion About Miller's Experiments Is The Following. ... Should The Positive Result Be Confirmed, Then The Special Theory Of Relativity And With It The General Theory Of Relativity, In Its Current Form, Would Be Invalid. Experimentum Summus Judex. Only The Equivalence Of Inertia And Gravitation Would Remain, However, They Would Have To Lead To A Significantly Different Theory.

Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

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