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"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization."
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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
Education
"The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great."
Gratitude
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Death
"Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers."
Fantasy
"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"Past glories are poor feeding."
Reflection
"She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister-comes from hating human beings so much, I think."
Humanity
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer
"The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit."
Preparation
"And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison."
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