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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

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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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Decision Philosophy World
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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
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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Difficult Face People See Time 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
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
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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Discover Excitement Funny Science
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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
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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself

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