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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

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
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom

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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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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