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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov

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
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live 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
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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

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