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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Isaac Asimov

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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking

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