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“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”

World Ideas Whole Moments Problem Body Inspiration Science Community Struggle Spring Lonely Accounts Inspired Whole World Organized Researchers

Author:Max Planck

“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.”

Humans Long Doe Ends Human Beings Struggle Birth Accounts Untouchables Untouchability

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.”

Humans War Values Struggle Conflict Accounts Constant Human History Clash Primacy

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

Men Doe Pain Suffering Sides Grief Struggle Blood Tears Particular Creatures Accounts Fellows Wounds Breasts Shed Anguish Another Man Pouring

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

Giving Has Beens Ideas Character Able Strong Struggle Capable Perfection Accounts Faculty Stability Gifted Advancing Being Strong

Author:Confucius