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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

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
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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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
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
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
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
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself

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