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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
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
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
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success

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