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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.

Isaac Asimov

People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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 cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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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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