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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.

Isaac Asimov

I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
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
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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
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 who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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