You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVSince 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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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 easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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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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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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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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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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