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

Isaac Asimov

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 teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
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
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing

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

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