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Isaac Asimov

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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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