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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Isaac Asimov

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
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
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 are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
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
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
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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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

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