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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

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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

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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