Anna George DeMille, daughter of Henry George (and, by the way, mother of choreographer Agnes DeMille) shared this letter from Albert Einstein, in the May-June 1934 issue of Land and Freedom.
I thank you for your great friendliness. I have already read Henry
George's great book and really learnt a great deal from it. Yesterday
evening I read with admiration he address about Moses. Men like Henry
George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful
combination of intellectual keeness, artistic form and fervent love of
justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading
of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation
especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George.
With friendly greetings,
A. EINSTEIN.
With friendly greetings,
A. EINSTEIN.
The other Einstein quote that rings in my ears is the one which talks about insanity: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
""Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.""
Einstein might have said that, but I think the greater insanity is expecting the world to be so unchanging that doing the same thing will always bring the same result. Just ask those who bought sub-prime mortgages. It worked fine, until it didn't.
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