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1 " Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human. "
― Isaac Asimov , Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2)
2 " Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading. "
3 " You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life. "
4 " people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is. "
5 " The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish. "
6 " You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable. "
7 " The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to. "
8 " People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions. "
9 " We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.''For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones. "
10 " However, though the request is reasonable and the citizenry is better off paying taxes as their price for maintaining a stable and efficient government, they are nevertheless reluctant to do so. In order to overcome this reluctance, governments must make it appear that they are not taking too many credits, and that they are considering each citizen’s rights and benefits. In other words, they must lower the percentage taken out of low incomes; they must allow deductions of various kinds to be made before the tax is assessed, and so on. "
11 " What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow. "
12 " There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before. "
13 " It is one thing to be democratic, quite another to be inconvenienced. "
14 " Lo so. Lo sappiamo tutti. Forse la lezione del passato potrà insegnarci cosa evitare. E poi, la tirannia che c'è adesso è reale. Quella che potrebbe esistere in futuro è solamente potenziale. Non possiamo sottrarci sempre ai cambiamenti pensando che la situazione potrebbe cambiare in peggio, altrimenti addio speranza di riuscire un giorno a sconfiggere l'ingiustizia. "
15 " Perché tante persone passavano la loro vita senza cercare la risposta a tutte le domande che c'erano... anzi, senza nemmeno porsi le domande? si chiese Seldon. Nella vita, esisteva qualcosa di più eccitante della ricerca delle risposte? "
16 " Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature. "
17 " He was not young any longer. Life no longer stretched before him as a vast uncharted field, its horizon lost in the distance. "
18 " He seemed so to Hari Seldon, certainly. Seldon stopped his morning constitutional to watch him. "
19 " They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals. "
20 " And finally, people are against it.” “But why?” “Because they’re against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor. "
