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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.

Isaac Asimov

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
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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

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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