Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Subject:
Genius   
Courage   
Intelligence   
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I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
Subject:
Intellect   
Politics   
Economics   
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Subject:
Life   
Success   
Work   
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Subject:
War   
Peace   
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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.
Subject:
Life   
Mankind   
Spiritual   
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Subject:
Science   
Art   
World   
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Subject:
Peace   
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Subject:
Death   
Fear   
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
Subject:
Destruction   
War   
Mistakes   
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Subject:
Books   
Learning   
Mind   
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Subject:
Life   
Beauty   
Mortality   
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
Subject:
Life   
Beauty   
Truth   
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Subject:
Laws   
Government   
Respect   
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Subject:
Life   
Belief   
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Subject:
Opinions   
Speech   
Human Nature   
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
Subject:
Women   
Science   
World   
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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Subject:
Life   
Health   
Mind   
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Subject:
Action   
Judgment   
Morality   
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Imagination   
World   
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