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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
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
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology

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