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

Isaac Asimov

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
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
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
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
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
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True

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

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