The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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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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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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