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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

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  Wind, Deeds, Bragging

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

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  Faces, Fiction, Literature

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

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  Life, Writing, Doctors

  Life (1984)

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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

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  Disappointment, Believe, People

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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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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• Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

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  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Moyers on October 21, 1988. "Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas". Book by Bill D. Moyers, 1989.

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• Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

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  Giving Up, Fighting, Winning

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• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

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  Intelligent, Keys, Survival

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• There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

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  Knowledge, Shields, Specialists

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.89, Spectra

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• Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

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  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Facts

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.5, Spectra

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• I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

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  Country, Kings, Real

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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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  Love, Thinking, People

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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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  Art, Two, Enemy

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• The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

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  Creative, Lucky, Machines

  "What 2014 Looked Like 50 Years Ago" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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• I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

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  Taken, Heart, Technological Change

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• Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

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  Sound, Being True

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• To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

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  Population, Needs, Anarchy

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

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• The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.

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  Mistake, Writing, Order

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

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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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• 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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  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.32, Bantam

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