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

Isaac Asimov

The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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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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
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
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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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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