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

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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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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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