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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

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
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
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

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