Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnything 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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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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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