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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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