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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

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
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
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
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
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
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
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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

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