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

Isaac Asimov

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Confidence Myself Right Wrong
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Reading Speed Understand
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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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Book Reading Value Worth
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.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst

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