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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
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
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
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
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
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
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious

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