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Quote by Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for

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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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. – Albert Einstein

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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. – Albert Einstein

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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. – Dan Rather

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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine

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President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. – Eliot Spitzer

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. – Cecil Beaton

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Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They dont tell their real parents about that – you dont want to tell Mom and Dad. – Maurice Sendak

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. – Will Rogers

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On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. – Greta Scacchi

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