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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Isaac Asimov

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
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
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
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
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
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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 great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful

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