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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov

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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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