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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.

Isaac Asimov

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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
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
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
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
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
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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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
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

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