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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious

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