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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Isaac Asimov

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
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
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
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction 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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
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
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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