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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

It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
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
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
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
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
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
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
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science

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