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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Above Complex Else Emotion
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

About Basic Bore Endless
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Another Better Better Time Die
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Avoid Catholic Chemistry Forbidden
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Imagination Intelligence Love Love Is
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Fairly Book Undisciplined Writer
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Age Brings Distrust Doctrine
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
Against Course Government Liberty
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause Determined Few Leaders
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

About Baseball English Italian
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Belief Collective Democracy Ignorance
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Chief Fact Lies Lives
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikola-tesla-quotes

Virtue Failings Inseparables Force
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Future Truth Evaluate Work
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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Die Generation Kind Length
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Action Develop Goals Life
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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Add Also Brother Glory
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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Attitude Dizzy Height Climb
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Add Days Every Find
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Robot Century Place Slave
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Bachelor Buying Furniture Like
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Feeling Constantly Growing Hear
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Always His Informed Like
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Childhood Clergy Prospect Hung
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Backwards Discipline Forward Going
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Get Getting Happiness Liking
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

Future Truth Evalute Accomplishment
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Best Countries Fantasy Fiction
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Caring Children Fairness Integrity
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Business Closely Follow Life
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Am Because Computer Feel
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Best Life Only Our
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