Homelab Rabus

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I notice that capable people are still at a premium in our society; we still need the people who are intelligent enough to think of the proper question to ask.

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Author:

Isaac Asimov

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The Complete Robot

The task of the human brain remains what it always has been, that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

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Isaac Asimov

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The Complete Robot

Emotional antipathy is not a valid reason for voting one way or the other.

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Isaac Asimov

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The Complete Robot

How do you judge a human being so as to know whether to obey or not?

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Isaac Asimov

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The Complete Robot

Mankind has lost its own say in its future. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand -- at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them;

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Isaac Asimov

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The Complete Robot

You can't judge by extremes.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

You do not know what freedom is. You have never lived but in swarms, and you know no way of life but to be constantly forced, in even the smallest things, to bend your wills to those of others or, which is equally vile, to spend your days struggling to force others to bend their wills to yours. Where is any possible freedom there? Freedom is nothing if it is not to live as you wish. Exactly as you wish.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

Society defines what constitutes an offense

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

I must be the Great Fool of the Galaxy.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

I will tell you a story that may not interest you, but that interests me.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

No one can encompass all of knowledge

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

Twenty thousand years, is just overnight when compared to a planetary lifetime.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth