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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.

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Albert Einstein

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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.

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Inner Freedom Is An Infrequent Gift Of Nature And A Worthy Object For The Individual.

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Outer Changes Always Begin With An Inner Change Of Attitude.

Try Not To Become A Man Of Success, But A Man Of Value. Look Around At How People Want To Get More Out Of Life Than They Put In. A Man Of Value Will Give More Than He Receives. Be Creative, But Make Sure That What You Create Is Not A Curse For Mankind.

Many Of The Things You Can Count, Don't Count. Many Of The Things You Can't Count, Really Count.

The Aim Of Science Is, On The One Hand, As Complete A Comprehension As Possible Of The Connection Between Perceptible Experiences In Their Totality, And, On The Other Hand, The Achievement Of This Aim By Employing A Minimum Of Primary Concepts And Relations.

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Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

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