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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Isaac Asimov

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
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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Honesty Myself Wrong
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
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

Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

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