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

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

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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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

I would, however, certainly never consent to lose my individuality while the rest of the Galaxy retains theirs.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

A human being is a concrete object. Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

Sometimes it's a matter of different interpretation

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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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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

The galaxy is not the universe.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

Many people have been known to sacrifice the dearest needs of others to some foolish whim of their own.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

You can't judge by extremes.

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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

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