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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.

Isaac Asimov

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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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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