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Isaac Asimov

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
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
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 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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
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
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing

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