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The Most Beautiful Emotion We Can Experience Is The Mystical. It Is The Power Of All True Art And Science. He To Whom This Emotion Is A Stranger, Who Can No Longer Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead. To Know That What Is Impenetrable To Us Really Exists, Manifesting Itself As The Highest Wisdom And The Most Radiant Beauty, Which Our Dull Faculties Can Comprehend Only In Their Most Primitive Forms - This Knowledge, This Feeling, Is At The Center Of True Religiousness. In This Sense, And In This Sense Only, I Belong To The Rank Of Devoutly Religious Men.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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The Most Beautiful Emotion We Can Experience Is The Mystical. It Is The Power Of All True Art And Science. He To Whom This Emotion Is A Stranger, Who Can No Longer Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead. To Know That What Is Impenetrable To Us Really Exists, Manifesting Itself As The Highest Wisdom And The Most Radiant Beauty, Which Our Dull Faculties Can Comprehend Only In Their Most Primitive Forms - This Knowledge, This Feeling, Is At The Center Of True Religiousness. In This Sense, And In This Sense Only, I Belong To The Rank Of Devoutly Religious Men.

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There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

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Government Bureaucracy

Everything Has Changed, Except Our Way Of Thinking.

Nonviolent Communication

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Am I, Or The Others Crazy?

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There Is An Atmosphere Of Well-sounding Oratory That Likes To Attach Itself To Dress Clothes. Away With It!

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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