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

Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
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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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

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