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

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No one can encompass all of knowledge

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Twenty thousand years, is just overnight when compared to a planetary lifetime.

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I will tell you a story that may not interest you, but that interests me.

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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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Society defines what constitutes an offense

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I must be the Great Fool of the Galaxy.

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

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You can't judge by extremes.

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