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Isaac Asimov

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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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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
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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim

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