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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

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
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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
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 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
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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
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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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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