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We teach the advantage of short life-quality versus quantity, evolutionary speed, ever-changing world - but nothing really makes people happy about living ten decades when they imagine they could live fourty.
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Author:
Isaac Asimov
Book:
Robots and Empire
You are not totally committed to sanity, are you? -
I never claimed to be.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
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A human being, after all, is only what it is defined to be.
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We are coming to a time of crisis in which emotions will run high, decisions will be taken quickly, and events will race past us.
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The more knowledge I gather of the human mind, the more despair I feel at being unable to understand it.
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Where business is to be done, you would be surprised how unimportant questions of ideology become
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There are times, when one must choose one human being over another.
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Everyone also knows that no treaty has ever been kept once it begins to work against the national interests of the more powerful signatory.
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To resist expansion under such circumstances is to ensure decay.
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Nothing lasts for centuries
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Memory!
Always there, of course, but usually remaining hidden. And then, sometimes, as a result of just the right kind of push, it could emerge suddenly, sharply defined, all in color, bright and moving and alive.
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