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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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  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

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  Funny, Food, Law

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

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  Running, Horse, Fall

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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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  Wise, Philosophy, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Sleep, Next Day, Matter

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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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  Encouragement, Truth, Mistake

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Eye

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

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  Jobs, Race, Routine

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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. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

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  Future, Needs, Way

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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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  Science, Scientist, Have Confidence

  "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 235, 1978.

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• Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

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  Dream, May, Impossible

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.120, Spectra

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• When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

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  Eye, Men, Rocks

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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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  Understanding, Curiosity, Mind

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• The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

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  Successful, Secret, Fool

  Isaac Asimov (1970). “The English plays”

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

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  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

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  People, Different, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.209, Spectra

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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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  Discovery, Way, Curious

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

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  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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• Education isn't something you can finish

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• It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

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  Mirrors, People, Common Sense

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Spectra

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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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  Sports, Robots, Crowds

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• Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

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  Pseudoscience, Pieces, Blanket

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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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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  Differences, Doe, Opinion

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• Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

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  Speech, Jew, Protected

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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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  Animal, Grandchildren, Thinking

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