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Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.
John W. Campbell / Fiction Writer
Accepting
Assessment
Initials
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Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.
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Helping
Machines
Statistics
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Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
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Absolutes
Immunity
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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
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Language
Statistics
Trouble
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Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
John W. Campbell / Fiction Writer
Home
Editors
Writing And Reading
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Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die
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Findings
Horrible
Way
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Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
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Men
Thinking
Writing
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No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
John W. Campbell / Fiction Writer
Looks
Philosophy
Sound
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There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.
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Answers
Giving
Statistics
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We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
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Learning
Men
Two
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History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.
John W. Campbell / Fiction Writer
Clubs
Doe
Remember
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Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.
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Chance
Ideas
Reality
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Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.
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Men
Bird
Trying
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Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.
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Science
Effort
Numbers
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It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?
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Running
Men
Ignorance
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