If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
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- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
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