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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Isaac Asimov

There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
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
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst

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