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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

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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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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Easy Emotion Person Reason
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
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
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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
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
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
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition

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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