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Sometimes it's a matter of different interpretation

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Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

It is easy to argue that a society that depends totally on robots becomes soft and decadent, dwindling and dying out of sheer boredom or, more subtly, by loosing the will to live.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

Each person must find happiness in his or her own manner

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

The whole planet was a house, so to speak, designed to shelter its inhabitants

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

One could argue that every society molds its population to fit itself

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

If you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

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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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