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"Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world."
Age
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Life
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Time
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs."
Assumptions
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Knowledge
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Military
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Knowledge
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Power
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Success
"I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones."
Knowledge
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Military
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War
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
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Knowledge
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Life
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."
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"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
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"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)"
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"It is the theory that decides what we can observe."
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"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes."
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"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."
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Men
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Taxes
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
Genius
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"What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable."
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
Age
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Life
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
Change
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"We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented."
Destiny
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Duty
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"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."
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