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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.

Isaac Asimov

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop 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
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
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf

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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