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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Isaac Asimov

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
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
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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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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