It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
ISAAC ASIMOVOld people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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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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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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