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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

Isaac Asimov

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
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
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
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
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
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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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom

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