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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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