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"The finest quality of the human mind is the ability to forget."

"A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace."

"Wenn A für Erfolg steht, lautet die Formel: A=x+y+z- X steht für Arbeit, y ist Muße und z heißt Mund halten."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Common sense is the deposits of prejudice laid down in the mind before the age of 18."

"[We should] try not to be successful - but, rather, try to be someone of value."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough"

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

   Albert Einstein

"We seek to strengthen the long-term bonds that bind together the British Empire and my country." 14.03.1957, at Nassau

"If I didn’t have air supremacy in Normandy, I wouldn’t be here." June 1944

President Dwight D Eisenhower

"Work is the rent we pay for life."

"I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too."

Queen Elizabeth I

"1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘Annus Horribilis’." Christmas Message 1992.

Queen Elizabeth II

"Die Emission von Papiergeld hat mehr Unheil über die Menschheit gebracht als die Emission von Kohlendioxid, Schwefelwasserstoff und Stickoxyden zusammen."

"One thing is certain: the victorious proletariat cannot impose happiness on any other nation if it does not want to undermine its own victory."

   Friedrich Engels

 "Animals fight, but they do not wage war .. Only man - unique among the primates - practices the large-scale, deliberate and enthusiastic destruction of his fellow creatures."