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    Raymond Chandler
    “I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
    tags: dicks
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind
    tags: belief, bible, bitter, childish, childish-beliefs, guide, guides, home, ignorance, ignore, imagine, invade, leader, leaders, library, resentment, school, science, shame, the-bible, thought, uneducated, unimaginative, unthinking, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: religion, science, willful-ignorance
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions
    tags: education, liberal-arts, machines
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Raymond Chandler
    “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window
    tags: hard-boiled
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
    tags: detective, noir
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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    Raymond Chandler
    “He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Raymond Chandler
    “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
    tags: blonde, sex-appeal
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    Raymond Chandler
    “The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: mysteries
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    Raymond Chandler
    “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
    tags: humor
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    Raymond Chandler
    “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
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    Raymond Chandler
    “I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: poetic-prose
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  • #30
    Raymond Chandler
    “The streets were dark with something more than night.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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