You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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 knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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 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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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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