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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.

Isaac Asimov

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
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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Easy Emotion Person Reason
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom
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
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
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
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild

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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