Homelab Rabus

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

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Page 252/301

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation's Edge

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

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

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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Page 258/301

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation's Edge

It is easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition"

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Page 268/301

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation's Edge

We do not understand a human being who cannot sense his place in the scheme of things, who does not feel like part of a greater whole.

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Page 276/301

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation's Edge

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it

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Page 289/301

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation's Edge

The Galaxy won't stop rotating because one man dies.

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Page 133/179

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation

You are surrounded by people during the day, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the night, you are free.

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Page 126/179

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation

My duty is primarily to the state, and not to my superior.

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Page 79/179

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

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Page 73/179

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation

Marriage - A foolish way to tie up the future.

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Page 71/179

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation

A circle has no end.

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Page 157/168

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Second Foundation