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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”
― Foundation and Empire
― Foundation and Empire
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