I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
ISAAC ASIMOVAt odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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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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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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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