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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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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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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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