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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy

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