"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak."

Charell, Ralph on self-talk
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

Einstein, Albert on relativity
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Einstein, Albert on religion
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"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Einstein, Albert on research
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working."

Einstein, Albert on praise
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"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

Einstein, Albert on power
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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Einstein, Albert on music
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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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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

McLaughlin, Mignon on price   

"Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

Einstein, Albert on cooperation
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"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on confusion
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"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert on conformity
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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

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

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on age and aging
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on age and aging
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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