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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.

Isaac Asimov

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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
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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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning 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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