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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Isaac Asimov

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
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 teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
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
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself

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