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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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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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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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