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Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

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Albert Einstein

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Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

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We Cannot Get To Where We Dream Of Being Tomorrow Unless We Change Our Thinking Today.

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

School Failed Me, And I Failed The School. It Bored Me. The Teachers Behaved Like Feldwebel (sergeants). I Wanted To Learn What I Wanted To Know, But They Wanted Me To Learn For The Exam. What I Hated Most Was The Competitive System There, And Especially Sports. Because Of This, I Wasn't Worth Anything, And Several Times They Suggested I Leave.

Great Spirits Have Always Found Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Latter Cannot Understand It When A Man Does Not Thoughtlessly Submit To Hereditary Prejudices But Honestly And Courageously Uses His Intelligence.

Don't Listen To The Person Who Has The Answers; Listen To The Person Who Has The Questions.

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

He Who Finds A Thought That Lets Us A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Peace.

It Would Be A Sad Situation If The Bag Was Better Than The Meat Wrapped In It.

When The Solution Is Simple, God Is Answering.

Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds.

I Think We Have To Safeguard Ourselves Against People Who Are A Menace To Others, Quite Apart From What May Have Motivated Their Deeds.

I Know Quite Certainly That I Myself Have No Special Talent; Curiosity, Obsession And Dogged Endurance, Combined With Self-criticism, Have Brought Me To My Ideas.

All The Fifty Years Of Conscious Brooding Have Brought Me No Closer To Answer The Question, "what Are Light Quanta?" Of Course Today Every Rascal Thinks He Knows The Answer, But He Is Deluding Himself.

What A Sad Era When It Is Easier To Smash An Atom Than A Prejudice.

I Am Convinced That Some Political And Social Activities And Practices Of The Catholic Organizations Are Detrimental And Even Dangerous For The Community As A Whole, Here And Everywhere. I Mention Here Only The Fight Against Birth Control At A Time When Overpopulation In Various Countries Has Become A Serious Threat To The Health Of People And A Grave Obstacle To Any Attempt To Organize Peace On This Planet.

The Genius Is In Making The Complex Simple.

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Science Is The Process Of Making Obviously Erroneous Ideas Less Obviously Erroneous.

What Really Interests Me Is Whether God Had Any Choice In The Creation Of The World.

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A Life Directed Chiefly Toward The Fulfillment Of Personal Desires Will Sooner Or Later Always Lead To Bitter Disappointment.

It Takes A Touch Of Genius - And A Lot Of Courage To Move In The Opposite Direction.

Einstein Was Attending A Music Salon In Germany Before The Second World War, With The Violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese Women Played A German Piece Of Music And A Woman In The Audience Exclaimed: "how Wonderful! It Sounds So German!" Einstein Responded: "madam, People Are All The Same."

One Must Not Attempt To Justify Them, But Rather To Sense Their Nature Simply And Clearly.

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