Homelab Rabus

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No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.

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Page 256/301

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

Each new individual is a reshuffling of molecules and genes into something new. New talents, new abilities, new contributions to Gaia. We must have them - and the only way is to make room.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

People have a tendency to take it for granted that they are better than their neighbors; that their culture is older and superior to that of other worlds; that what is good in other worlds has been borrowed from them, while what is bad is distorted or perverted in the borrowing or invented elsewhere

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Page 177/301

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

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Page 174/301

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

Look, if a musician writes a symphony, do you ask which particular cell in his body ordered the symphony written and supervised in its construction?

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge