At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOVJokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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