"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them."

Eliot, T. S. on people
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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you."

Eliot, T. S. on power
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on pride
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"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

Eliot, T. S. on reality
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

Eliot, T. S. on success
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"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."

Einstein, Albert on effort
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

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

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

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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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

Einstein, Albert on intuition
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Einstein, Albert on learning
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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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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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

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

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."

Einstein, Albert on master
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on methods
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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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"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it."

Einstein, Albert on models and modeling   

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."

Einstein, Albert on mystery
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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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"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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"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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