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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

Isaac Asimov

I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
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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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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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

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