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.
ISAAC ASIMOVI don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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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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