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“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”

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Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.”

World Spirit Nations Understanding Realizing United Policy Relation Stronger Russia Vulnerability Bombs Lakes United Nations Arrivals

Author:Albert Einstein

“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”

Men Should Real Individual Force Teacher Influence Teaching Difficulty Pressure All Time Psychics Sage Elementals Baffled

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.”

Made President Mistake Military Danger Letters Bombs Atoms Justification Great Mistakes Atom Bomb President Roosevelt

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.”

May Persons Doe Secret Military Regimes Affront

Book:Essays in Humanism

Source: Essays in Humanism

“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”

Long Difficult New York Ordinary Cat Statistics Los Angeles Tails Wireless Telegraph

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.”

Genius

Author:Albert Einstein

“It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.”

Ifs Would Be Situation Meat Bags

Author:Albert Einstein

“This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.”

Needs Seems Together Particular

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.”

Solo Trumpets

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”

Mean Energy Investing Nuclear Atoms Predictions Shattered Indication Predicting Predicting The Future Nuclear Energy Proven Wrong

Author:Albert Einstein

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