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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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
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
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
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
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman

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