If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my livin…

Albert Einstein
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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. ✨ Quoted in Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954
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