Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
ISAAC ASIMOVHuman beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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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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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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