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 ASIMOVIt 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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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