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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
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
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
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
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time

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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