Isaac Asimov Quotes
I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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A woman who is loved always has success.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
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I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
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Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian. Well, they have their reasons, but sooner or later we will all be judged.
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I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
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They are as much 'Enya' as I am.
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
