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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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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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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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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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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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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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