Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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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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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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