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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?

Isaac Asimov

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
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
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
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
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
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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Honesty Myself Wrong
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself

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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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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