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People think of education as something that they can finish.

Isaac Asimov

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
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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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry 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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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 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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
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
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
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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

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