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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.

Isaac Asimov

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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
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
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
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
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
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
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
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.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself

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