It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

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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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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 seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Live Thinking
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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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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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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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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.

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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.

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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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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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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Live Society Time Woman
The intelligent man is never bored.

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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man

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