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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.

Isaac Asimov

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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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