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

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
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
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
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
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.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security 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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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
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
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

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