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"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."
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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
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"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
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"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
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"Don't give up searching."
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"Persistence is the source of great strength."
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"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"To pray is to make petition."
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"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
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"Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!"
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world."
Time
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
Knowledge
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Life
"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
Education
"All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end."
Philosophy
"Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"
Religion
"Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In 1965, astronomers discovered that Mercury does not keep one side always to the Sun, but has a period of rotation of about fifty-four days, so that all parts of it are exposed to the sunlight at one time or another.Well, what can I do except say that I wish astronomers would get things right to begin with?And I certainly refuse to change the story to suit their whims."
Science
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