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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.

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
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
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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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
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
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking

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