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Each person must find happiness in his or her own manner

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Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

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

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

The galaxy is not the universe.

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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 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

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

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

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

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

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Isaac Asimov

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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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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge

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

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Isaac Asimov

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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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Isaac Asimov

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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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Author:

Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Edge