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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

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

There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

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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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

There are words one does not say. Do you say every word you know under all circumstances?

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Isaac Asimov

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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

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

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

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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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

It's amazing how much I don't know.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

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

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