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I never think of the future—it comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein · 1930 Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. — Albert Einstein · 1929 Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein · 1929 As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. — Albert Einstein · 1945 Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein · 1955 I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. — Albert Einstein · 1945

Pablo Picasso4 quotes

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso · 1945 Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. — Pablo Picasso · 1956 The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that. — Pablo Picasso · 1956 The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. — Pablo Picasso · 1935

Muhammad Ali3 quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! — Muhammad Ali · 1964 It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. — Muhammad Ali · 1977 A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. — Muhammad Ali · 1964

Ray Bradbury3 quotes

I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010 You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993 There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury · 2010

Robert Rauschenberg3 quotes

I don't know where I'm going but I'll get there on time. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005 Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005 A good collaboration produces universal thinking. — Robert Rauschenberg · 1987

Thomas Edison3 quotes

The horseless vehicle is the coming wonder. — Thomas Edison · 1895 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison · 1932 For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use. — Thomas Edison · 1917

Chris Burden2 quotes

The first time you do something only happens once. — Chris Burden · 2008 To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education. — Chris Burden · 1993

Chuck Close2 quotes

Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck Close What is it about people that since the dawn of time we've wanted to mark our presence so that other people will see it? — Chuck Close · 1998

Desmond Tutu2 quotes

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights. — Desmond Tutu · 1985 You will never be free until we are free. — Desmond Tutu · 1999

Diana, Princess of Wales2 quotes

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. — Diana, Princess of Wales · 1995 I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. — Diana, Princess of Wales · 1995

Georges Braque2 quotes

Light is a delicate thing. — Georges Braque The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained. — Georges Braque · 1957

Henri Matisse2 quotes

Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died. — Henri Matisse · 1941 What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse · 1908

Hillary Rodham Clinton2 quotes

The great story here... Is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. — Hillary Rodham Clinton · 1998 I'm not sitting here because I'm some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I am sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. — Hillary Rodham Clinton · 1992

James Baldwin2 quotes

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive. — James Baldwin · 1963 Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. — James Baldwin · 1984

Jimmy Carter2 quotes

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it-and God forgives me for it. — Jimmy Carter · 1976 We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means. — Jimmy Carter · 1979

John Steinbeck2 quotes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck · 1947 A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. — John Steinbeck · 1954

John Updike2 quotes

Some sense of religious mission is part of being American. — John Updike · 1996 The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else. — John Updike · 1977

Joseph Beuys2 quotes

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. — Joseph Beuys · 1969 Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act. — Joseph Beuys · 1969

Margaret Thatcher2 quotes

They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. — Margaret Thatcher · 1987 No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. — Margaret Thatcher · 1980

Mark Rothko2 quotes

The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. — Mark Rothko The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. — Mark Rothko

Maya Angelou2 quotes

Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong. — Maya Angelou · 1986 I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, "You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth." — Maya Angelou · 2013

Milton Friedman2 quotes

Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own. — Milton Friedman · 1975 One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman · 1975

Nikola Tesla2 quotes

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket. — Nikola Tesla · 1926 In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla · 1935

Richard Nixon2 quotes

Well, when the president does it…that means that it is not illegal. — Richard Nixon · 1977 I brought myself down. I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I'd had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. — Richard Nixon · 1977

Ruth Bader Ginsburg2 quotes

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg · 2009 So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg · 2012

Sherman Alexie2 quotes

Censorship of any form punishes curiosity. — Sherman Alexie · 2012 I never feel spiritual anywhere except in the presence of my own stories. — Sherman Alexie · 2004

Steve Bannon2 quotes

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. — Steve Bannon · 2016 The media's the opposition party. — Steve Bannon · 2017

Steve Jobs2 quotes

That's been one of my mantras-focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs · 1998 The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. — Steve Jobs · 1996

Abraham Lincoln1 quote

It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event. — Abraham Lincoln · 1864

Akio Morita1 quote

We believe if you have a family you can't eliminate certain members of that family because profits are down. — Akio Morita · 1988

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