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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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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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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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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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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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