Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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