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“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― Albert Einstein

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
― Albert Einstein

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
― Albert Einstein

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
― Albert Einstein

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
― Albert Einstein

“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
― Albert Einstein

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
― Albert Einstein

“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
― Albert Einstein

“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
― Albert Einstein

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them. ”
― Albert Einstein

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
― Maya Angelou

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
― Maya Angelou

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
― Maya Angelou

“Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
― Maya Angelou