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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Isaac Asimov

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking 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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
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
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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