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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

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
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Jokes 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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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