There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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