"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"Love is a better teacher than duty."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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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."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."

Einstein, Albert on money
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Einstein, Albert on past
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."

Einstein, Albert on patience
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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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."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."

Einstein, Albert on ideas
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either."

Twain, Mark on experience
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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