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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.

Isaac Asimov

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
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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time

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