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 the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
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Einstein, Albert. "On Intellectual Freedom, 18 November 1954." Einstein on Politics, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 2007, ch. 10. Originally from Letter to the editor published in The Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954.
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