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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

Isaac Asimov

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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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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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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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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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 is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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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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