"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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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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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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"If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind."

Einstein, Albert on goals   

"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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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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"Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class."

Bush, George on class   

"A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable."

Dickens, Charles on temper
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"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on lies and lying
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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on america   

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on dissent
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on freedom
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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on decisions
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"Lovers alone wear sunlight"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on motivation
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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on persuasion   

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on principles
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"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."

Dickens, Charles on change
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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Dickens, Charles on secrets
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"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. Theyll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised   

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on strength   

"But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America. "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised   

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on procrastination   

"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on priorities
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

Einstein, Albert on thoughts and thinking
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"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."

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

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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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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"All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."

Einstein, Albert on success
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