You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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