"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."

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

Einstein, Albert on confusion
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"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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"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

Einstein, Albert on cooperation
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"The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

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

Einstein, Albert on creativity
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"The legs are the wheels of creativity."

Einstein, Albert on creativity
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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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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"It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. "

Einstein, Albert on uncategorised   

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Einstein, Albert on atheism
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"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."

Einstein, Albert on intuition
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

Eliot, George on dream
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on evil
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"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

Eliot, George on excellence
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on habit   

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on humankind
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."

Drummond, Henry on character   

"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."

Drummond, Henry on jesus christ
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"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

Dulles, John Foster on success   

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

Drucker, Peter F. on advertising
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"Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future."

Drucker, Peter F. on goals
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"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

Drucker, Peter F. on knowledge
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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try."

Drucker, Peter F. on mistakes
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"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

Drucker, Peter F. on business
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"Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation."

Drucker, Peter F. on business
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