I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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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