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

Isaac Asimov

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
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
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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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction 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
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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
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

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