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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"It is easier to destroy an atomic nucleus than a prejudice."

"Imagination is much more important than knowledge,
because knowledge is limited."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist and inventor of the "Theory of Relativity"
"If I have seen farther than other men,
it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

-- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English mathematician and physicist
"Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1796-1829), German dramatist, novelist, poet, and scientist
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French author and aviator
"Only the one who becomes a grown-up and keeps on being a child is a human being."

-- Erich Kästner (1899-1974), German author
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

-- Socrates (469-399 B.C.), Greek Athenian philosopher
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."

-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian ascetic and nationalist leader
"People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost."

-- Bert Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist
"Consider the past and you shall know the future."

-- Chinese Proverb
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they shall think."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
"When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."

-- Phil Zimmerman, author of the strong encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), after he became the subject of a federal investigation for possibly violating the Arms Export Control Act, under which cryptographic systems are classified as war materials, and other cryptographic software designers have been harassed by the government.