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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

Isaac Asimov

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
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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 first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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