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“If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.”
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“The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.”
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“People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.”
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“My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.”
Source : "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals". The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), October 27, 2006.
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“This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.”
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“The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.”
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“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”
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“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”
Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
