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Today, I am celebrating Isaac Asimov's birthday. I greatly admire him, having learned better English by reading everything I could find.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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.
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Spinliesel 9 Jan 2
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Love Asimov!

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"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance."

Most of his quotes are 'food for thought'.

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Thats just people who don't have much self confidence trying to put others down.

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