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

Isaac Asimov

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing

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