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Self Respect
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-Albert Einstein
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Service
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
-Albert Einstein
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Shopping
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein
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Simplicity
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-Albert Einstein
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein
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God always takes the simplest way.
-Albert Einstein
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
-Albert Einstein
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-Albert Einstein
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Solitude
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-Albert Einstein
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
-Albert Einstein
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Soul
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
-Albert Einstein
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Spirituality
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
-Albert Einstein
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Success & Failure
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
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Survival
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
-Albert Einstein
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Taxation
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
-Albert Einstein
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Teaching
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
-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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Technology
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-Albert Einstein
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
-Albert Einstein
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Terrorism
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
-Albert Einstein
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Thought
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
-Albert Einstein
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-Albert Einstein
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Time
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
-Albert Einstein
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Books by and about Albert Einstein