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

Isaac Asimov

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
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
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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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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
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
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand

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

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