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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.

Isaac Asimov

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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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 great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.

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