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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

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
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
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
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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