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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.

Isaac Asimov

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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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
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
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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 are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
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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Decision Philosophy World
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop 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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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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