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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 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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent 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
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security 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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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

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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