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The intelligent man is never bored.

Isaac Asimov

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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain 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
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
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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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself

The intelligent man is never bored.

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