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  • #1
    Saul Bellow
    “I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.”
    Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

  • #2
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

    (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Stuart Chase
    “Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
    Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “E=mc2”
    Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “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)”
    Albert Einstein, On Peace

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Frank Zappa
    “Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
    Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
    Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
    Frank Zappa

  • #26
    Frank Zappa
    “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “Drugs will turn you into your parents.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #29
    Frank Zappa
    “I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
    Frank Zappa



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