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For The Most Part We Humans Live With The False Impression Of Security And A Feeling Of Being At Home In A Seemingly Familiar And Trustworthily Physical And Human Environment. But When The Expected Course Of Everyday Life Is Interrupted, We Realize That We Are Like Shipwrecked People Trying To Keep Their Balance On A Miserable Plank In The Open Sea, Having Forgotten Where They Came From And Not Knowing Whether They Are Drifting. But Once We Fully Accept This, Life Becomes Easier And There Is No Longer Any Disappointment.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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For The Most Part We Humans Live With The False Impression Of Security And A Feeling Of Being At Home In A Seemingly Familiar And Trustworthily Physical And Human Environment. But When The Expected Course Of Everyday Life Is Interrupted, We Realize That We Are Like Shipwrecked People Trying To Keep Their Balance On A Miserable Plank In The Open Sea, Having Forgotten Where They Came From And Not Knowing Whether They Are Drifting. But Once We Fully Accept This, Life Becomes Easier And There Is No Longer Any Disappointment.

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Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

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When U Knw Ur Limits U Go Byond Them

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Everybody Felt His Superiority, But Nobody Felt Oppressed By It. Though He Had No Illusions About People And Human Affairs, He Was Full Of Kindness Toward Everybody And Everything. Never Did He Give The Impression Of Domineering, Always Of Serving And Helping. He Was Extremely Conscientious, Without Allowing Anything To Assume Undue Importance; A Subtle Humor Guarded Him, Which Was Reflected In His Eyes And In His Smile.

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From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other.

War Cannot Be Humanized. It Can Only Be Abolished.

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. We Will Not Solve The Problems Of The World From The Same Level Of Thinking We Were At When We Created Them. More Than Anything Else, This New Century Demands New Thinking: We Must Change Our Materially Based Analyses Of The World Around Us To Include Broader, More Multidimensional Perspectives.

Faithful Servants

Rejoice With Your Family In The Beautiful Land Of Life.

Science Has Gone A Long Way Toward Helping Man To Free Himself From The Burden Of Hard Labor; Yet, Science Itself Is Not A Liberator. It Creates Means, Not Goals. It Is Up To Men To Utilize Those Means To Achieve Reasonable Goals.

When The Number Of Factors Coming Into Play In A Phenomenological Complex Is Too Large Scientific Method In Most Cases Fails. One Need Only Think Of The Weather, In Which Case The Prediction Even For A Few Days Ahead Is Impossible.

It Is Best, It Seems To Me, To Separate One's Inner Striving From One's Trade As Far As Possible. It Is Not Good When One's Daily Break Is Tied To God's Special Blessing.

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

I Don't Teach My Students, I Provide The Circumstances In Which They Can Learn.

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We Must Recognize What In Our Accepted Tradition Is Damaging To Our Fate And Dignity-and Shape Our Lives Accordingly.

Our Defense Is Not In Our Armaments, Nor In Science, Nor In Going Underground. Our Defense Is In Law And Order.

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Without "ethical Culture", There Is No Salvation For Humanity.

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