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Es ist bequem mit dem Einstein. Jedes Jahr widerruft er, was er das vorige Jahr geschrieben hat.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.
They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Whatever Spiteful fools may Say — Each jealous, ranting yelper — No woman ever played the whore Unless She had a man to help her.
[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
The decision which we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded an unjust customs we owe our ultimate allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.