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"The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"

"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."

"I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes."

"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."

"Society destroys your individuality, your soul."

"In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold."

"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."

"You'll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in."

"Dare to be different."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."

"I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one."

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."

"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more."

"The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God."

"For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."
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