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‘To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.’

“Yet gold is gold,” said the Grand Master.

Hardin winced at the sight and muttered, “A man of ‘direct action’ to the end. The last refuge!”

“Hardin,” cried Wienis again, “order your priests back to their jobs.”
Hardin looked up coolly. “Order them yourself, Wienis, and see who is playing with forces too great for whom."

Hardin's pulling all the strings right now, perhaps because unlike everyone around him he refuses to be a puppet to anyone - not the barbarian lords of the Periphery, not even Seldon himself.

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

“Don’t you see? It’s Galaxy-wide. It’s a worship of the past. It’s a deterioration—a stagnation!”
He stared from one to the other and they gazed fixedly at him.

Love Hardin's character. Great pace so far.

My first delve into Science fiction, here goes nothing...