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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

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
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
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
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
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
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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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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