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.
ISAAC ASIMOVLife is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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