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The sole perfection which mode...

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

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Relativism is not indifference...

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are...

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

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The average cooking in the ave...

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

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Robots do not hold on to life....

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

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As is well known, all collecto...

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

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All the year round there is sp...

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

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Robots of the world, you are o...

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

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Gentlemen, four-fifths of the ...

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

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Everyone has the best of feeli...

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

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Be these people either Conserv...

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

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Quite obviously a cat trusts h...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

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It suddenly occurred to me tha...

It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

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Great God of the Ants, thou ha...

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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After his death the gardener d...

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

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Art must not serve might....

Art must not serve might.

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If one must fight or create, i...

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

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It was a great thing to be a h...

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

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Much melancholy has devolved u...

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

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Nothing is stranger to man tha...

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

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