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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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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
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
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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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
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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
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

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