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Albert Einstein

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“To wrap this all up, any true understanding of Einstein's imagination and intuition will come from how his mind worked. The explanation that Einstein himself most often gave for his mental accomplishments was his curiosity. As he put it near the end of his life, I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing, he once explained. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. There was an aesthetic to Einstein's thinking, a sense of beauty, and one component to beauty he felt was simplicity. He had echoed Newton's dictum. Nature is pleased with simplicity. He would aim for simplicity and beauty, and beauty for him was simplicity.”
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“To impending death. A group of doctors convened at his home the next day, and after some consultation they recommended a surgeon who might be able to repair the aorta. Einstein refused. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It's time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
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“Is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone. Einstein made it to his seventy sixth birthday. A few days later he learned of the death of Besso, this is one of his friends, the friend he had met six decades earlier upon arriving as a student in Zurich and their friends their entire life. As if he knew he only had a few more weeks, Einstein ruminated on the nature of death and time in the condolence letter he wrote to Besso's family. He has departed from the strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubborn illusion. And this stomach aneurysm indeed explodes, so he knows he's dying, and this is his response.”
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“He's much older. He had stomach issues his whole life, so we're very close to him dying. And he's got some reflections on how to go about doing that process and how he thought about life, which is interesting. So I want to talk about his last year. close to his last year of life. He knew that the aneurysm in his abdominal aorta should soon prove fatal, and he began to display a peaceful sense of his own morality. When he stood at the graveside and eulogized the physicist Rudolf Leidenberg, the words seemed to be ones he felt personally. Brief this is such beautiful language Brief is this existence as a fleeting visit in a strange house. He seemed to sense that this final transition he was going through was at once natural and somewhat spiritual. The strange thing about growing old”
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“Okay, I'll try to say that. I have a quote from Einstein here. I have become a kind of enfant terrible. I'm going to define that for you. A person who's unconventional or controversial behavior or ideas shock, embarrass, or annoy others. He's not I've become. You've been like that your whole life, buddy. I become kind of enfant to you terrible in my new homeland due to my inability to keep silent and to swallow everything that happens. Besides, and this is the most important part why I'm reading this section to you, besides, I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out on behalf of those who are young and are subject to much greater restraint.”
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“In an Einstein's point, he's like, you guys have completely misunderstood. He says, Einstein believed he was being a good rather than a disloyal citizen. He had read the First Amendment and felt that upholding its spirit was at the core of America's cherished freedom which he loved. That's why he wanted to live in America. Even when his opinions cause outrage in the media, he wouldn't stop sharing them. He took a boyish American glee at his freedom to say whatever he felt. I have come, I can barely pronounce English. I can't pronounce French. Hold on.”
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“So after World War II in America, there's this spread of McCarthyism, Einstein's being black. This is where Einstein will not shut up. And he shut up by any means. So he constantly would let people even use his name because he just did not believe they should sacrifice anything. He loved the First Amendment, which he talks about. And he thought that McCarthyism that was taking over the United States at the time was you're willing to give up civil liberties to try to chase out the few communists that actually don't even have any power anyways. So then people were like, oh, he must be a communist. Go back to where you came from kind of thing, that instinct in human nature that we see repeats over and over again. But anyways, he's being blasted every newspaper for encouraging adherence to free speech and independent thought. But you can't do that during McCarthyism, right? And so Bertrand Russell comes to his defense and he winds up writing because he didn't like what the New York Times was saying about Einstein. So he writes them a letter and he's pointing out the difference. Like there's a difference between ethical and legal. And just because something's a law doesn't mean it's ethical.”
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“In Washington who have studied his history. So this is where we get into Einstein's really short with J. Robert Oppenheimer. And one of the weirdest things that, in my opinion, that Einstein, for his whole life, he preached this idea of a supernatural supranatural, I think is the word he used maybe, like one world government to end war and essentially for somebody to complete obsessed with freedom and independence. He's like, well, countries have to give up some of their sovereignty to this one organization that can stop humans desire for violence. And Oppenheimer's like, this is a ridiculous idea, Einstein. So he says he did challenge Einstein's argument for a full-fledged world government. The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are profound differences in the values of the societies it attempts to integrate. So that's Oppenheimer. His whole point is like you can't even do this in one country. Now you're going to combine hundreds of countries with all kinds of different profound”
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“I can't remember the name of the early analog or part analog computer that he hired Clutch In it around. Anyways, he's a fascinating, fascinating person, so he appears in this book as well. Vaniver Bush, the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, which oversaw the Manhattan Project, contacted Einstein and asked for his help on a problem involving the separation of isotopes that started chemical traits. Einstein was happy to comply. Einstein Oh, and so this is what Van Ever was saying. Bush wanted to get Einstein more involved in the project, but the US government, including the FBI led by Jaeger Hoover at the time, they kept, they had multiple decade investigation into Einstein. Hoover, that crazy nut job, was convinced that Einstein was a spy and a communist. So said Bush wrote, I wish very much that I could place the whole thing before Einstein and take him fully into confidence. But this is utterly impossible in view of the attitude of people here.”
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“So he's visited by some fellow physicists at his home. They convince him that hey, there's these rumors. We need to spur the U.S. government into action. This is before America, at this time was quote unquote, still neutral. And this is the letter that he writes FDR, which Einstein later says was his biggest regret, but he also hedges that regret saying that if Germany would have gotten the bomb, like we would have been in big trouble. So he says the world's most famous scientist was about to tell the president of the United States that he should begin contemplating a weapon of almost unimaginable impact that could unleash the power of the atom. For the time being, America stayed neutral, or at least it did not declare war. The country did, however, begin to rearm and to develop whatever new weapons might be necessary for its future involvement. Actually did a bonus episode. It's on a book called Freedom's Forge. That entire book is about this rearmament of America and the industrial. It was actually recommended by the founder of Strait, Patrick Carlson. Patrick, he's got a”
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“Okay, so now Einstein's in America. This is where we get some fantastic anecdotes from his life. When shown his office at Princeton, he was asked what equipment he might need. A desk, a table, a chair, paper, and pencil, he replied. Oh yes, and a large wastebasket so I can throw away all my mistakes. He soon required an image of being a kindly and gentle professor, distracted at times, but sweet, who wandered around lost in thought, helped children with their homework, and rarely combed his hair or wore socks. His slightly dishevelled appearance was partly an assertion of his simplicity and partly a mild act of rebellion in the Cesilarious, I have reached an age when if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to, he told a neighbor.”
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“Like an assessment from someone who had just eaten lunch with Churchill. I love that. Before he leaves Europe for the final time, he gives a speech and really two things that he preaches his whole life is the need for freedom and solitude. And he's talking about all the stuff that's happening in Europe right now. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake, he said. Without such freedom, there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no pasture, no Lister, freedom was foundation for creativity. That's a fantastic sentence. He also spoke of the need for solitude. I love this part, and sign me up if I could do this. I would love to live my days in a lighthouse overlooking the ocean. The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Let me start this over. He also spoke of the need for solitude. The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Give your time, give your brain time to think, right? He said, and he repeated a suggestion he had made when younger that signed”
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“Anyways, I'm telling you this because you never know what the future holds. So I want to give you two examples. This is you never know part one. When Einstein left Zurich, he was still assuming that he would be spending half of each ensuing year in Europe. What he did not know was that this would be the last time he would see his first wife and their younger son. So while he's leaving Zurich, he's going to wind up going to England and meeting with Churchill. And there's a great sentence here I'm going to read to you. And just remember that. So that's, you never know part one, and we'll get to you never know part two in a minute. Let me tell you about more about this churchill thing because I find him fascinating. He took Einstein to see Winston Churchill, then suffering through his wilderness years as an opposition member of parliament. At lunch in the Gardens of Children's Home, they discussed Germany's rearmament. He is an eminently wise man, Einstein said. It became clear to me that these people have made preparations and are determined to act resolutely and soon. And I love what Isaacson writes here.”
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“And so that's what Einstein also said later is the reason that he winds up sending this famous letter to FDR like, hey, we're hearing rumors. Other physicists are telling us that Germany's trying to figure out how to harness and make atomic weaponry. We have to do it before they do. And he says later on, if he knew that Germany was unable to do so, he wouldn't have ever lifted a finger because he was so distraught over what happens with the atomic bomb. But the fact was that the reason they couldn't develop it and that America could develop it is in large part to some degree due to this stupid law that Hitler made taking some of the smartest, most brilliant physicists and making them run away and flee because his hatred of Jews avoid intense ideology. It turns your brain to cabbage. Hitler is a doofus. Here's Hitler's a doofus part too. Max Planck, which is a good friend, he's a few years older than Einstein. So he goes and tries to talk. He's not Jewish.”
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“He personified it, he was no longer restless, he was comfortable. And so in 1930, 1931, he was asked, what do you think of Adolf Hitler? Einstein replied, he is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important, if only, right? Another quote from him that Hitler is going to change. I am not only a pacifist, I'm a militant pacifist. And then once Hitler comes to power, he changes this and he changes it for the rest of his life. He realizes, okay, there's just some threats that pacifism is just not a solution to. That's what I was mentioning earlier. It's like there seems to be a disconnect. He understood the biological imperative for humans to engage in war. And yet having a small percentage voluntarily opt out doesn't seem like any kind of solution for that. I was very confused. But he winds up obviously changing that idea as well. So in the early 1930s, he's going back and forth. He's traveled to, he's getting recruited from everywhere. Like people want to go to Oxford and France and Italy and United States.”
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“Germany's power structure. It was an attitude that was all too typical for assimilated German Jews. I think that's a quote from Einstein there. They seem to have no idea that they were sitting on a volcano. On the morning of june twenty fourth, 1922, some young nationalists pull alongside the open coast.”
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“And so, without understanding, it's not this next quote on Einstein on not conforming will not come as a surprise. The undignified mania of trying to adapt and conform and assimilate, which happens among many of my social standing, has always been very repulsive to me.”
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“as he floated through the human aspects of his world. And we're going to hear directly from him how he thinks about this. My passionate sense of social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and communities, he reflected. I am truly a lone traveler, and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. In the face of all these ties I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.”
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“Okay, so let's go back to this part about Einstein's detachment because this really does describe Einstein as the person, not the famous well-known name, but as the actual person. Einstein's detachment allowed him to effect an air of amusement rather than anxiety. The whole affair is a matter of indifference to me, as is all the commotion and the opinion of each and every human being, so he's saying I'm indifferent to the opinions of others. I will live through all of this and all that is in store for me like an unconcerned spectator.”
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“on that day in Berlin, so he's writing to his friend. Do you still remember that occasion some twenty five years ago when we went together to the Reichschag building convinced that we could turn the people there into honest Democrats? How naive we were for men of forty.”
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“and paused for a moment. Some people are innately conditioned to hedge their words, to try to please their listeners, and enjoy the comfort that comes from conforming not Einstein. Instead he responded critically I have always thought that the German university's most valuable institution is academic freedom, whereby the lecturers are in no way told what to teach and the students are able to choose what lectures to attend without much supervision and control, he said. Your new statutes seem to abolish all of this. I would be very sorry if the old freedoms were coming to an end. That did not help his mission. The students decided that they did not have authority to release the deans. So instead, Einstein went off to the Chancellor's palace to seek out someone who did. They were able to find the new German president who was perfectly willing to scribble a note ordering the release. It worked. Years later, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in power, Einstein would ruefully look back.”
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“impatience when dealing with personal entanglements And we see his love of independence because even when he's about to get divorced from his first wife, he's fine just dating his cousin, right? And her and her family are pushing them to get married. And he says, he even added a somewhat surprising promise. He would not be living with Elsa even if they got married. Instead, he would keep his own apartment, for I shall never give up the state of living alone, which has manifested itself as an indescribable blessing, he said”
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“The prospect of parting with his children was devastating to Einstein. He became deeply emotional as he imagined life apart from his sons. I would be a real monster if I felt any other way, he said. I have carried these children around innumerable times. I've played with them, I have joke with them. They used to shout with joy when I came home. Now they would be gone forever, and their image of their father is being spoiled. Einstein bawled like a little boy, all afternoon and evening. It was the most wrenching personal moment for a man who took perverse pride in avoiding personal moments, and a good way there's one other sentence I want to read to you, but it really is a good way to think about Einstein is the fact that he was prone to resist confinement. To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted. So at this point, World War I is happening. He's in Germany. His kids are in Switzerland. His work, the fact he's really busy.”
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“with personal relationships. And I think these two sentences is a good way to think about his philosophy. Personal relationships involve nature's most mysterious forces outside judgments are easy to make and hard to verify. And it is while he's trying to first, I think he was trying to reconcile maybe, okay, I'll live with my wife just so I can be with my kids. So he comes up with this contract that he delivers to her as the only way that they can cohabitate. And we see kind of his like coldness that he has. I mean, this is, I'm going to read the whole thing to you because it is wild. Einstein delivered a brutal ceasefire ultimatum. It was in the form of a proposed contract, one in which Einstein's cold scientific”
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“seem he had still found time to reflect upon the nature of that particular mathematical transformation. At the end of many of his evening lectures, Einstein would ask the students who was coming to the cafe, where they would sit and talk until closing time. Before I go back to mourn the way he teaches, just random advice from Einstein I thought it was fantastic to dwell on the things that the press are anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. So this is Einstein's friend, responding to some university administrators that Einstein is not actually a good teacher, which is really interesting because a few years earlier, he's being recruited from one university to another and his students at the university, they're trying to be trying to be recruited from, they actually started a sign petition to pay Einstein more to prevent him from leaving because he was such a great teacher. So again, the people that are actually being taught by him love it. The people that are not.”
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“And this is really funny. Amused by the whole situation, he turned to the person seated next to him and speculated about the about what the Protestant Reformation leader who had founded the university would say, and his name's Calvin. Do you know what Calvin would have done had he been here? The gentleman, befuddled, said no. Einstein replied. He would have erected an enormous stake and had us all burnt for its sinful extravagance. As Einstein later recalled, the man never addressed another word to me.”
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“the plague develop calculus an analysis of light spectrum and the laws of gravity This is Einstein on where his ideas come from. I guess not just, I don't think it just applies to him. He's speaking in general. A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But the intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. I heard Elon Musk on a podcast say something similar one time where it's like, where do you get most of your ideas? And he says it sounds cliche, but it's usually in the shower. And he's like, it's not actually happening in the shower. It's just I'm receiving. And, you know, he thinks of his brain like a computer. So he's like, I'm just receiving the download of last night's calculations or something like that. I thought it was funny. This is why people associate Einstein with the atomic bombs, even though he did not really play much of a role, at least specifically. He is obviously mentioned and will forever be associated as that though. So it says his famous, probably the most famous formula of all time, e equals mc squared. It says energy equals”
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“And so now we get to the part where his dad dies. And I think the note of myself is this may drive you. It says Herman Einstein was not destined to see his son become anything more successful than a patent examiner. Einstein felt for the rest of his life a sense of guilt about that moment. He's talking about his father's death, which encapsulated his inability to forge a true bond with his father. For the first time he was thrown into a daze, overwhelmed by a feeling of desolation. He later called his father's death the deepest shock he had ever experienced. I was actually watching this interview with Pat Riley, and he said something that was interesting, and I think it speaks to the fundamental nature of these relationships, the bond between and it moves in both directions. Obviously it's more intentional as it moves down the generations than up, but still the bond that you have with your parents. And Pat Riley was talking about that his dad, he was 25 years old when his dad died, I think Einstein's around the same age as well. And he said something. So he said, so any success I've had after that, he didn't see. And this is a recent.”
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“And so there's something that Einstein learns from his boss at the patent office that I think is really useful and something we should think about as well. His boss had a credo that was useful for a creative and rebellious theorist as it was for a patent examiner. And we're going to see that his name's Holler, I think. Holler's credo is very similar to a tactic that Jeff Bezos uses. So this is Einstein's boss. You have to remain critically viligent. Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious. Resist being credulous”
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“So let's go back to his schedule when he's working at the patent office. So in 1905, it's considered his miracle year. That's when he writes the four important papers or some of the most important papers of his life. And his schedule is rather crazy. So he says it was Albert Einstein. So it was that Albert Einstein would end up spending the most creative seven years of his life arriving at work at 8 a.m. six days a week and examining patent applications. I'm frightfully busy. Every day I spend eight hours at the office and at least one hour of private lessons and then in addition I do some scientific work. He soon learned that he could work on the patent application so quickly that it left time for him to sneak in his own scientific thinking during the day. I was able to do a full day's work in only two or three hours, the remaining part of my day, I would work on my own ideas.”
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“Grossman wrote that there was likely been opening for an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office, located in Bern. Grossman's father knew the director, and he was willing to recommend Einstein. And this is where he's ecstatic. Just think what a wonderful job this would be for me. I will be mad with joy if something should come of that. This is the maxim I mentioned earlier in a line that could be considered yet another maxim for his life. Einstein recounted, Long live imprudence. It is my guardian angel in the world.”
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“And another thing about Einstein is that. He used diving into his work and being extracted his work as a distraction for what he calls the merely personal. So he says strenuous intellectual work and looking at God's nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life's troubles. He's got a beautiful way of speaking, by the way. He's a mastered language. And yet what a peculiar way he's describing himself, right? The fact that he just dives into this distraction because he understands math and physics, but he doesn't understand humans. And yet what a peculiar way this is to weather the storms of life. In many a lucid moment, I appear to myself as an ostrich who buries his head in the desert sand so as not to perceive the danger.”
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“No, no, don't hire this guy. So that's the problem. On those rare occasions when Einstein did show up and this guy's name is Purnett in Purnett's class, his independent streaks sometimes got him in trouble, such as the day he was given an instruction sheet for a particular experiment. With his usual independence, Einstein naturally flung the paper in the waste paper basket. He proceeded to pursue the experiment in his own way. So Purnett is talking this over with his teaching assistant. He's like, what do you make of Einstein? He always does something different from what I've ordered. And I thought his assistant's reply was very fascinating. He does indeed, Professor, but his solutions are right and the method he uses are of great interest. And so this is where we get into the part where he's developing his own personal curriculum. I can't decide if personal curriculum or personal research and development is the better way to describe that idea, but he's doing, that's what he's doing. I played hooky. This is Einstein. I played hookie a lot and studied the masters of theoretical physics with a holy zeal at home.”
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“And they're asking to draw the student revolutionaries are drawing up new laws. This is how the university is going to be guided. And they're asking Einstein, what do you think of this? And he said something that was really interesting, and I'll go into more detail later, but he said teachers should be free to teach how and what they want. And then that students should be free to select into the classes they want, the revolutionaries, and I put that in quotes, of course, want to make all the decisions for everyone else so they don't listen to his advice, but it's really interesting now looking back that this is something that he believed over multiple decades. The fact that it's up to the individual. It's almost like, I mean, he does this later on too, to develop, we talked about this idea that everybody should have their own personal curriculum. And it's not a curriculum that ends when you're in school. And I think Einstein would agree with that. So this is a description of 16-year-old Einstein. He was sure of himself. He strode energetically up and down in a rapid, crazy tempo of a restless spirit, which carries a whole world in itself. Whoever approached him was captivated by his superior personality.”
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“To this one, right? He will say the Santa Have Highlights, so we'll talk about this later, but he'll say the same thing when he's around, I think he's 40 years old. He's living in Berlin at the time. Student revolutionaries kidnap the deans of the college that he's at, right? And Einstein goes to try to convince these student revolutionaries.”
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“Students should be allowed to reach their own conclusions by using a series of steps that begin with hands-on observations and then proceed to intuitions, conceptual thinking, and visual imagery. It was even possible to learn and truly understand the laws of math and physics that way. Road drills, memorization, and force fed facts were avoided. Now this is Einstein talking about this time in his life. When compared to six years schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium, Einstein later said, it made me clearly realize how much superior in education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority. Let me read that part again because I just realized it made me realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority. So he's comparing and contrasting his time in that German authoritarian school.”
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