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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
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 Interest Live Society Time Woman
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking

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