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Источник: Египет. От древних цивилизаций до современности.
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“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
Источник: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”
Источник: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Источник: Foundation's Edge
Контексте: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”
Источник: I, Robot
“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”
Источник: Pebble in the Sky
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
Источник: The End of Eternity
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Источник: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
Источник: I, Robot
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
Источник: The Robots of Dawn
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Источник: I, Robot (1950)
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Источник: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly”
Вариант: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Источник: Foundation
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
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“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Вариант: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Источник: Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5; This also appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" within Foundation. It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H. Rider Haggard's Dawn, “I do not believe in violence; it is the last resource of fools.” Asimov is usually quoted simply with "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."