They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe 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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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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