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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

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 has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
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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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
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
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
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
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom

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