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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

Isaac Asimov

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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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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