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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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