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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

Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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
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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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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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One Liner Sound True
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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

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