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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
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
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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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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
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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Easy Emotion Person Reason
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
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
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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