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221-    “As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”

222-    “Necessity is the mother of all invention.”

223-    “Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

224-    “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

225-    “The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”

226-    “A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”

227-    “As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.”

228-    “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

229-    “The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.”

230-    “I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.”

231-    “So long as there are men, there will be wars.”

232-    “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds”

233-    “The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.”

234-    “Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

235-    “As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”

236-    “Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream...”

237-    “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”

238-    “It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.”

239-    “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

240-    “This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”

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