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"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
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"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
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"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
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