

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
― Foundation
― Foundation

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation

“Past glories are poor feeding.”
― Foundation
― Foundation

“You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.”
― Foundation
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.”
― Foundation

“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.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
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