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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Isaac Asimov

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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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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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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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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