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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Isaac Asimov

The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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 is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
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
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking

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