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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Isaac Asimov

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science
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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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent 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
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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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