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• I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

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  Book, Writing, Taught

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• Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "Second Foundation".

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• Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

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  Humble, Pins, Puncture

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• The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

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  Power, Never Quit, Release

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.139, Spectra

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• After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

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  Years, Way, Gone

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.141, Bantam

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• The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

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  Age, Magazines, Lasts

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.78, Bantam

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

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  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

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  Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

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  Two, Tree, Forever

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

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  Quests, Satisfaction, Scientist

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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• Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

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  Names, Two, Honor

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

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  People, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

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• Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

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  Death, Suicide, Atheist

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

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  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

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  Wind, People, World

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

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• It's the writing that teaches you.

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  Writing, Teach

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• If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

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  Conclusion, Balanced, Ifs

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “The Robots of Dawn”, p.117, Spectra

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• I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

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  Order, Games, Play

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

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  Enemy, Sticks, Beats

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The far ends of time and earth”

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

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  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

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  Drinking, Science, Giving

  The Journal of NIH Research, 2, p. 30, 1990.

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• A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

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  Vacuums, Legends, Might

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• Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

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  Fall, Tasks, Action

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