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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

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
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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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking

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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