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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

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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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
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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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
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
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
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
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
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
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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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep

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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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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