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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - [Knowledge] In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - [Endings] It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - [Difficulties] It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - [Obviousness] It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn. - [Learning] Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - [Death : Life] Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world. - [Disaster] No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. - [Decision] The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. - attributed to [Taste] His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. - Foundation [Books (First Lines)] Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes for the head of a fleet stationed in a yet-sullen stellar system on the Marches of the Galactic Empire. - Foundation and Empire (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] I LOOKED AT MY NOTES AND I DIDN'T LIKE THEM. I'd spent three days at U.S. Robots and might as well have spent them at home with the Encyclopedia Tellurica. - I, Robot (Introduction) [Books (First Lines)] "Ninety-eight--ninety-nine--one hundred." Gloria withdrew her chubby little forearm from before her eyes and stood for a moment, wrinkling her nose and blinking in the sunlight. - Robbie, later included in the 1950 collection I, Robot [Books (First Lines)] There is much more that the Encyclopedia has to say on the subject of the Mule and his Empire but almost all of it is not germane to the issue at immediate hand, and most of it is considerably too dry for our purposes in any case. - Second Foundation [Books (First Lines)]
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