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Foundation by
Isaac Asimov
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.
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It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
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Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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