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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
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
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
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
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
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
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

There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.

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