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| Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So 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 which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them |
Albert Einstein |
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| It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. |
Albert Einstein |
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| God may be subtle, but He isn't mean. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Imagination is more important than knowledge... |
Albert Einstein |
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| Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. |
Albert Einstein |
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| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Truth is what stands the test of experience. |
Albert Einstein |
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| At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice. |
Albert Einstein |
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| It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. |
Albert Einstein |
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| When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. |
Ruth Benedict |
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| Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. |
S. J. Perelman |
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| Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. |
S. J. Perelman |
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| A brother is a friend given by Nature. |
Legouve |
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| The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. |
Irwin Edman |
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| Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. |
Virgil |
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| Nunc scio quit sit amor. |
Virgil |
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| Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor |
Virgil |
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| Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. |
Virgil |
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| Lat., Now I know what love is. |
Virgil |
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| Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass) |
Virgil |
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| This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime. |
Virgil |
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| As the twig is bent the tree inclines. |
Virgil |
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| It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. |
Virgil |
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| The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way. |
Virgil |
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| All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies. |
Virgil |
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| Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid) |
Virgil |
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| Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid) |
Virgil |
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| They are able because they think they are able. |
Virgil |
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| I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. |
Virgil |
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| Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all. |
Virgil |
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| Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love. |
Virgil |
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| Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold. |
Virgil |
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| Each man is led by his own liking. |
Virgil |
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| Look with favour upon a bold beginning. |
Virgil |
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| Death's brother, Sleep. |
Virgil |
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| Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. |
Virgil |
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| In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. |
Virgil |
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| Each of us bears his own Hell. |
Virgil |
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| Your descendants shall gather your fruits. |
Virgil |
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| They can do all because they think they can. |
Virgil |
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| They can conquer who believe they can. |
Virgil |
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| O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. |
Virgil |
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| Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. |
Virgil |
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| Trust one who has gone through it. |
Virgil |
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| A snake lurks in the grass. |
Virgil |
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| Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. |
Virgil |
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| Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. |
Virgil |
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| Fortune favors the brave. |
Virgil |
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| It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. |
Virgil |
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| Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious. |
Virgil |
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| I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. |
Virgil |
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| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
John Locke |
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| Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. |
John Locke |
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| I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought. |
John Locke |
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| Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. |
John Locke |
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| New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. |
John Locke |
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| A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. |
John Locke |
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| A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. |
John Locke |
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| The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. |
Albert Ellis |
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| Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like |
Jean Cocteau |
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| Art is science made clear. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. |
Jean Cocteau |
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| The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme. |
Bible |
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| Do to others what you would have them do to you. |
Bible |
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| Faith without works is dead. |
Bible |
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| The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. |
Bible |
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| Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. |
Bible |
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| Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. |
Bible |
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| Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. |
Bible |
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| Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. |
Bible |
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| Prove all things hold fast that which is good. |
Bible |
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| Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him. |
Bible |
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| And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. |
Bible |
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| Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. |
Bible |
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| Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. |
Joe Theismann |
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| The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. |
Joe Theismann |
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| The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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| Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. |
Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. |
Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. |
Malcolm Muggeridge |
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