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

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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
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
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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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
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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