Albert Einstein: Never regard your study as a duty, but...

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Quote: It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Voltaire
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Quote: I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
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George Orwell
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Quote: When somebody’s wife or child dies, to a man we all routinely say, ‘Well, that’s part of life.’ But if one of our own family is involved, then right away it’s ‘Poor, poor me!’ We would do better to remember how we react when a similar loss afflicts others.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant…? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self?
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct – unity of purpose.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Voltaire
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Quote: The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Quote: Do not dare not to dare.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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George Carlin
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Quote: Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
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Sun Tzu
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Quote: Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: For where else is friendship found if not with fairness, reliability and respect for virtue only?
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
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Socrates
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Quote: Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: The essence of knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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Confucius
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Quote: All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Aristotle
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Quote: Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Quote: To rest in these principles only: the one, that nothing will happen to me which is not conformable to the nature of the universe; and the other, that it is in my power never to act contrary to my god and daimon: for there is no man who will compel me to this.
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