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“I lie on the beach like a crocodile and let myself be roasted by the sun. I never see a newspaper and don't give a damn for what is called the world.”

— Albert Einstein

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Wikiquote: Albert Einstein
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Context

Letter to Max Born, 1918, from The Born-Einstein Letters: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times, Macmillan (2005 edition), pg 7.

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Einstein, Albert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Albert Einstein. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

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