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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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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