The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOVHe 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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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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