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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

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself

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