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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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
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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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
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
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
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
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
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True

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