Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVMan’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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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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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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