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ISAAC ASIMOVJokes 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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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