Isaac Asimov Quotes
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
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The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
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Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.
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The most common strategic error that salespeople make in this phase of the sale is that they don’t try to uncover the customer’s guidelines, or criteria, for making the decision.
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Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
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Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
