"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

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Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

Isaac Asimov

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“Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.”
“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”
“Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.”
“There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.”
“One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering”
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed;”
“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.”

Source : to Edwin L James of the New York Times, 1928.
“My job has me traveling all the time, and I got this house, so my downtime is spent sort of making a home. Every year it's different, and I try to do things that are more fulfilling.”

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