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

Isaac Asimov

People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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
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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
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
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science

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