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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.

Isaac Asimov

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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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success

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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