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It's Not That Life Has Been Easy, Perfect Or Exactly As Expected. I Just Choose To Be Happy And Grateful No Matter How It All Turns Out. If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed.

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It's Not That Life

Albert Einstein

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It's Not That Life Has Been Easy, Perfect Or Exactly As Expected. I Just Choose To Be Happy And Grateful No Matter How It All Turns Out. If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed.

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Women Marry Men Hoping They Will Change. Men Marry Women Hoping They Will Not.

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The Only Thing We Can Be Certain Of In This Life Is That We Can Be Certain Of Nothing.

The Restriction Of Knowledge To An Elite Group Destroys The Spirit Of The Society And Leads To Its Intellectual Impoverishment.

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The Press, Which Is Mostly Controlled By Vested Interests, Has An Excessive Influence On Public Opinion.

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What Use Are Socks? They Only Produce Holes.

Nothing Will End War Unless The Peoples Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

I See My Life In Terms Of Music.

One May Say The Eternal Mystery Of The World Is Its Comprehensibility.

Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Return As Much As I Have Received.

I Feel That You Are Justified In Looking Into The Future With True Assurance, Because You Have A Mode Of Living In Which We Find The Joy Of Life And The Joy Of Work Harmoniously Combined. Added To This Is The Spirit Of Ambition Which Pervades Your Very Being, And Seems To Make The Day's Work Like A Happy Child At Play.

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He Who Finds Though That Lets Us Penetrate Even A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Grace. He Who, In Addition, Experiences The Recognition, Sympathy, And Help Of The Best Minds Of His Times, Had Been Given Almost More Happiness Than One Man Can Bear.

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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.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.

I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War, Love Rather Than Hate.

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Everyone Must Become Their Own Person, However Frightful That May Be.

An Expert Is A Person Who Has Few New Ideas; A Beginner Is A Person With Many.

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The Longing To Behold This Pre-established Harmony [of Phenomena And Theoretical Principles] Is The Source Of The Inexhaustible Patience And Perseverance With Which Planck Has Devoted Himself ... The State Of Mind Which Enables A Man To Do Work Of This Kind Is Akin To That Of The Religious Worshiper Or The Lover; The Daily Effort Comes From No Deliberate Intention Or Program, But Straight From The Heart.

I Should Very Much Like To Remain In The Darkness Of Not Having Been Analyzed.

How Insidious Nature Is When One Is Trying To Get At It Experimentally.

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In My Relativity Theory I Set Up A Clock At Every Point In Space, But In Reality I Find It Difficult To Provide Even One Clock In My Room.

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Fear Or Stupidity Has Always Been The Basis Of Most Human Actions.

So Would A Being, Endowed With Higher Insight And More Perfect Intelligence, Watching Man And His Doings, Smile About Man's Illusion That He Was Acting According To His Own Free Will.

The Significant Problems We Have Cannot Be Solved At The Same Level Of Thinking With Which We Created Them.

History Is Littered With Examples Of Men Who Would Become Gods, But Only One Example Of God Becoming Man.

How Many People Are Trapped In Their Everyday Habits: Part Numb, Part Frightened, Part Indifferent? To Have A Better Life We Must Keep Choosing How We Are Living.

If I Were Wrong, Wouldn't One Be Enough?

Live With Purpose. Don't Let People Or Things Around You Get You Down.

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Smoke Like A Chimney, Work Like A Horse, Eat Without Thinking, Go For A Walk Only In Really Pleasant Company.

I Know Little About Nature And Hardly Anything About Men.

I Want To Know What God Thinks. The Rest Are Details.

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

You Cannot Prepare For War And Peace At The Same Time.

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

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Turkish Soldiers Are Very Brave. They Love Their Homeland And They Do Not Hesitate To Give Their Lives For It If Necessary.

The Mere Formulation Of A Problem Is Far More Essential Than Its Solution, Which May Be Merely A Matter Of Mathematical Or Experimental Skills. To Raise New Questions, New Possibilities, To Regard Old Problems From A New Angle Requires Creative Imagination And Marks Real Advances In Science.

But Love Brings Much Happiness - Much More So Than Pining Brings Pain.

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The World Will Not Be Destroyed By Those Who Do Evil, But By Those Who Watch Them Without Doing Anything.

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I Believe In Standardizing Automobiles. I Do Not Believe In Standardizing Human Beings. Standardization Is A Great Peril Which Threatens American Culture.

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Where There Is Love, There Is No Imposition.

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Creativity Is Seeing What Others See And Thinking What No One Else Has Ever Thought.

To Act Intelligently In Human Affairs Is Only Possible If An Attempt Is Made To Understand The Thoughts, Motives, And Apprehension Of One's Opponent So Fully That One Can See The World Through Their Eyes.

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Man Like Every Other Animal Is By Nature Indolent. If Nothing Spurs Him On, Then He Will Hardly Think, And Will Behave From Habit Like An Automaton.

The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except Our Thinking. Thus, We Are Drifting Toward Catastrophe Beyond Conception. We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

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It Strikes Me As Unfair, And Even In Bad Taste, To Select A Few Of Them For Boundless Admiration, Attributing Superhuman Powers Of Mind And Character To Them. This Has Been My Fate, And The Contrast Between The Popular Estimate Of My Powers And Achievements And The Reality Is Simply Grotesque.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious.

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The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned As A Liberation (...)the Road To This Paradise Was Not As Comfortable And Alluring As The Road To The Religious Paradise; But It Has Shown Itself Reliable, And I Have Never Regretted Having Chosen It.

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If The Rabble Continues To Occupy Itself With You, Then Simply Don't Read That Hogwash, But Rather Leave It For The Reptile From Whom It Has Been Fabricated.

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I Think And Think For Months And Years. Ninety-nine Times, The Conclusion Is False. The Hundredth Time I Am Right.

Rejoice With Your Family In The Beautiful Land Of Life.

You Can't Blame Gravity For Falling In Love.

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A Successful Man Is He Who Receives A Great Deal From His Fellow Men, Usually Incomparably More Than Corresponds To His Service To Them. The Value Of A Man, However, Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

Imagination Encircles The World.

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The Most Aggravating Thing About The Younger Generation Is That I No Longer Belong To It.

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Compound Interest Is The Eighth Wonder Of The World. He Who Understands It, Earns It ... He Who Doesn't ... Pays It.

In My Experience, The Best Creative Work Is Never Done When One Is Unhappy.

For Any One Who Is Pervaded With The Sense Of Causal Law In All That Happens, Who Accepts In Real Earnest The Assumption Of Causality, The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible. Neither The Religion Of Fear Nor The Social-moral Religion Can Have Any Hold On Him.

To Have Security Against Atomic Bombs And Against The Other Biological Weapons, We Have To Prevent War, For If We Cannot Prevent War Every Nation Will Use Every Means That Is At Their Disposal; And In Spite Of All Promises They Make, They Will Do It. At The Same Time, So Long As War Is Not Prevented, All The Governments Of The Nations Have To Prepare For War, And If You Have To Prepare For War, Then You Are In A State Where You Cannot Abolish War.

Evil Does Not Exist Sir, Or At Least It Does Not Exist Unto Itself. Evil Is Simply The Absence Of God. It Is Just Like Darkness And Cold, A Word That Man Has Created To Describe The Absence Of God. God Did Not Create Evil. Evil Is Not Like Faith, Or Love That Exist Just As Does Light And Heat. Evil Is The Result Of What Happens When Man Does Not Have God's Love Present In His Heart. It's Like The Cold That Comes When There Is No Heat Or The Darkness That Comes When There Is No Light.

Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

Time Does Not Exist - We Invented It

A Thought That Sometimes Makes Me Hazy: Am I - Or Are The Others Crazy?

Men Marry Women With The Hope They Will Never Change. Women Marry Men With The Hope They Will Change. Invariably They Are Both Disappointed.

It Is A Very Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

The Strongest Force In The Universe Is Compound Interest.

One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.

The Only Source Of Knowledge Is Experience.

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The Same Thinking That Has Led You To Where You Are Is Not Going To Lead You To Where You Want To Go.

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Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

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