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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
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
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
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
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
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

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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