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Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.
To enlist. To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life – that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing – I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.