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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Isaac Asimov

You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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