Homelab Rabus

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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

We are anxious to do what is right; not necessary what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively

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It is only Isolates who feel so alienated that they have to use artificial conventions to enforce a feeble substitute for true companionship

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I am a Skeptic - I accept only what I am forced to accept by reasonably reliable evidence, and keep that acceptance tentative pending the arrival of further evidence.

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Sometimes it's a matter of different interpretation

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The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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You cant have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm

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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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It is not wise to trust one's self overmuch.

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Each person must find happiness in his or her own manner

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

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A super-organism consisting of human beings only is unstable. It cannot be set up. Other animals must be added-then plants-then the inorganic world. The smallest super-organism that is truly stable is an entire world, and a world large enough and complex enough to have a stable ecology

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