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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?

Isaac Asimov

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.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction 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
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
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
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
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
I 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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Honesty Myself Wrong
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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

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