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 are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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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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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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