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Isaac Asimov

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
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
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
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole

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