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You Must Be Aware That Most Men (and Also Not Only A Few Women) Are By Nature Not Monogamous. This Nature Makes Itself Even More Forceful When Tradition And Circumstance Stand In An Individual's Way.

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You Must Be Aware

Albert Einstein

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You Must Be Aware That Most Men (and Also Not Only A Few Women) Are By Nature Not Monogamous. This Nature Makes Itself Even More Forceful When Tradition And Circumstance Stand In An Individual's Way.

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Education Is What Is Left After You've Forgotten Everything You've Learned.

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Cherish The Questions, For The Answers Keep Changing.

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Only One Who Devotes Himself To A Cause With His Whole Strength And Soul Can Be A True Master. For This Reason Mastery Demands All Of A Person.

There Is No Place In This New Kind Of Physics Both For The Field And Matter, For The Field Is The Only Reality.

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.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But This Year The Answers Are Different.

People Will Not Disarm Step By Step; They Will Disarm At One Blow Or Not At All.

Life Isn't Worth Living, Unless It Is Lived For Someone Else.

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My Position Concerning God Is That Of An Agnostic.

Reward And Punishment

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I Do Not Much Believe In Education. Each Person Ought To Be His Or Her Own Model, However Frightful That May Be.

The Stupid Are Invincible.

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