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.
ISAAC ASIMOVI 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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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