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"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"
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"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."


"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."


"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."


"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs."


"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."


"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."


"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."


"I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up."


"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."
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