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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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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
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
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 cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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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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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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