Homelab Rabus

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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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Page 170/348

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

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

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

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

It is not wise to trust one's self overmuch.

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

We are anxious to do what is right; not necessary what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively

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Isaac Asimov

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Foundation and Earth

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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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

Sometimes it's a matter of different interpretation

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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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Page 56/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth