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• Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

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  Dream, May, Impossible

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.120, Spectra

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• The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

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  Lying, Used

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.239, Spectra

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Eye

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

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  Ignorance, Cutting, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

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  Escaping, Tyrants, May

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

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• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.

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  Men, Symphony, Advice

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• What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

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  Dream, Jobs, Kids

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• The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that
  -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins.

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  Christian, Book, Stories

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• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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  Honesty, Technology, Computer

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

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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

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  Fall, May, Nonsense

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• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

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  Science, Answers, Possibility

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The road to infinity”, Doubleday Books

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

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  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

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  Sports, Robots, Crowds

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• True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

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  Education, Art, Learning

  "It's Been a Good Life".

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• The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

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  Cutting, Self, Humanity

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

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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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  Encouragement, Truth, Mistake

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• You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

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  Answers

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• Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

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  Flattery, Youngsters

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

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  Memories, Science, Intelligent

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

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• Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

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  Hatred, Athletic, Admiration

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.18, Bantam

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• It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

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  Animal, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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  Inspirational, Life, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

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  Thinking, Different, Add

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

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  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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