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Isaac Asimov

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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
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
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
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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
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
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
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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

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