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

Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself

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