"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

Einstein, Albert on taxes and taxation
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"Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation."

Einstein, Albert on survival
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"It is theory that decides what can be observed."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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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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"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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"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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

Einstein, Albert on science
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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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"For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment."

Wooden, John on purpose
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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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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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

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

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

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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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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"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."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

Einstein, Albert on death
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"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on scandal
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on temptation
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"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."

Unknown, Source on effort   

"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."

Unknown, Source on experience   

"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best."

Unknown, Source on experience   

"The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it."

Unknown, Source on nations   

"A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"People don't fail, they give up"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them."

Unknown, Source on fortune   

"Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs."

Unknown, Source on freedom
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"Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them."

Unknown, Source on education
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"The world is run by C students."

Unknown, Source on education
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"Young people need models, not critics..."

Wooden, John on youth   

"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

Handey, Jack on death   

"It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable."

Unknown, Source on death
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"If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right."

Unknown, Source on decisions
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