Violence is the last resort of the powerless.

原文:"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Don't let your morals stop you from doing the right thing.

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Human beings will always choose the safest and most moderate path to move forward, and the stars will become an unattainable dream.

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Human beings will always choose the safest and most moderate path to move forward, and the stars will become an unattainable dream.

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Nothing has to be true, but it has to be believable.

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Three Laws of Robotics

First Law – A robot may not injure a human being nor, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey all orders given to it by human beings, except those which conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own safety, except as provided in the First and Second Laws.

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Only brazen lies can succeed

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Only after going through severe tests can mankind continue to move forward and reach the peak of development. Dangerous environment and sense of crisis are the fundamental driving force that drives mankind to make continuous progress and conquer new things.

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If we trace the root of the problem, and go deeper, we will find that all the sufferings of mankind can be traced back to the fact that in the history of the galaxy, almost no one has been able to understand the thoughts of others. Except perhaps Hari Seldon and a few others since then. Each person hides himself in a fog that no one else can penetrate, and each fog contains only one person. Occasionally, a faint and vague signal will penetrate from one fog, and humans use these signals to grope for each other. However, since they cannot understand each other, they cannot trust or forgive each other, so everyone has been in a state of absolute loneliness since childhood, and they feel fear and anxiety at all times. In the long run, this leads to suspicion and persecution between people.

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Innovation is the life force of science houses.

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It is a mistake to think that the public wants the environment to be protected, the human race to survive, and that idealists who strive for such high goals will be loved by the public. In reality, the public wants only one thing: a comfortable life for themselves.

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Is there anything more exciting in life than finding answers?

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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

All normal beings resent control, consciously or unconsciously, and this resentment is heightened when the control comes from the less powerful or allegedly less powerful party.

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But generally speaking, fallacies don’t just disappear on their own. It’s almost as if there’s a law of conservation of fallacies, which says that fallacies can’t be eliminated, they just change form.

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In the face of ignorance, the gods themselves remain silent

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It will become common sense that women do not necessarily have to bear children. The suffocating social pressure to be a good wife and mother will be lifted, which is more meaningful than lifting economic pressure. Thanks to the use of contraceptives, the burden of bearing children can be lifted without giving up sexual relations.

This does not mean that women will no longer have children, just that they will no longer be forced to have children.

In fact, I think the enslavement of women and population growth went hand in hand. …

On the other hand, if women were truly liberated, the population explosion would stop of its own accord. There is hardly any woman who would be willing to give up countless children in exchange for her freedom. Please don't rush to say "no"; women's freedom has never been truly tried, but it is worth noting that where women's social status is the lowest, the birth rate is the highest, which must be noted.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last resort of the powerless.

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Even if we escape from Earth, we still cannot escape the rules of competition for colonization and first-come-first-served. There is no new model of cooperation. Human beings’ desire to colonize and expand their territory has moved to other planets as technology advances. No matter how society progresses, humans are still animals driven by ambition and desire.

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The gap between readers and non-readers is widening year by year. The more a reader reads, the more information he gets, the larger his vocabulary grows, and the more familiar he becomes with all kinds of literary allusions. Reading becomes easier and more enjoyable for him. But for non-readers, reading becomes more and more difficult and meaningless.

The result is that readers and non-readers coexist and always have coexisted (regardless of how literacy is defined in a particular society), with readers constituting a tiny minority, I would guess, less than 1%.

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In discussing questions such as "What is justice?" and "What is good?", Socrates adopts the posture that he knows nothing and needs guidance. (This is called "Socratic irony" because Socrates knows full well that he knows much more than the poor fellows he has asked to guide him.) Socrates feigns ignorance and tricks others into spelling out their views on such abstract concepts. Then, with a series of seemingly ignorant questions, he forces them into such a state of self-contradiction that they finally give in and admit that they don't know what they are talking about.

It was the incredible magnanimity of the Athenians that allowed them to tolerate this for decades. It was not until Socrates was 70 that they could no longer tolerate it and forced him to commit suicide by taking poison.

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When the pagan Romans persecuted the early Christians, the Christians called for tolerance. When the Christians came to power, was there any tolerance? Absolutely not. They immediately began to persecute the other side in return.

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Language is a way for humans to express their inner thoughts and feelings. It is not innate, but must be learned before it can be used. It is not a perfect way of communication. The language communication model established by humans is just to use a combination of various sounds to express the state of mind. However, this method is extremely clumsy and obviously lacks expressive ability. It can only convert the delicate thoughts in the mind into the dull sounds produced by the vocal organs.

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If we trace it back to the source and explore deeper, we will find that all the sufferings suffered by mankind can be traced back to one fact - that is, in the history of the galaxy, almost no one can understand the thoughts of others.

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This means that if a woman happens to be smarter than a man she likes (for some mysterious reason), she must never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, or she will lose him because the attraction to the opposite sex will not be able to overcome the fatal wound to the deepest and most core of his masculine self-esteem.

On the other hand, when a man sees a woman who is clearly inferior to him, he feels infinite comfort. That is why stupid women look "cute". The more patriarchal a society is, the more it values ​​women's stupidity.

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Everyone hides himself in a fog that others cannot penetrate, and there is only one person in each fog. Occasionally, a faint and vague signal will be revealed from a certain fog, and humans use these signals to grope each other. However, since they cannot understand each other, they cannot trust and forgive each other. Therefore, everyone has been in a state of absolute loneliness since childhood, and they feel fear and anxiety at all times. Over time, this has led to suspicion and persecution between people. For hundreds of thousands of years, human feet have stumbled forward in the mud, and the mind has been suppressed for the same amount of time. In fact, the power of the mind can lead humans to fly to the sky long ago.

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All our religious customs and ceremonies are more form than substance, because it is a popular religion.

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"It is a mistake to think that the public wants the environment to be protected, that the human race to survive, and that idealists who work for such high goals will be loved by the public. In reality, the public wants only one thing: for themselves to live a comfortable life. We saw this clearly in the environmental crises of the 20th century. When people knew that smoking increased the risk of cancer and the best solution was to stop smoking, they wanted to invent a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When people knew that internal combustion engines polluted the atmosphere and the best solution was to stop using such engines, they wanted to invent engines that did not pollute the air."

"So now, young man, don't talk to me about stopping the electron channel. The world's economic development and the comfort of all mankind depend on it. You'd better think about how to prevent the electron channel from causing the sun to explode."

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Anger can sometimes be a very useful emotion. At least, an angry person is never as timid as he normally would be.

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Dedicated to mankind

May the war against ignorance be won one day

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In life , unlike chess , the game continues after checkmate.——Isaac Asimov

Life is like chess and it is better than chess. When the game is over, everyone disperses and the road ahead is long.

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Fighting psychological fear is like being stuck in quicksand with only a stick.

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Indeed, I was so complimentary of women that, in those days, people often accused me of treating them as sexual objects, but I always responded with a trembling voice: "Then let them treat me as a sexual object, and then we will achieve gender equality."

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John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong; when people thought the earth was spherical, they were also wrong. But if you think that the earth is spherical and the earth is flat are both wrong in the same way, then you are more wrong than both of them combined.

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I have always spoken for the oppressed, regardless of race or gender.

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Having money and leisure is one of the characteristics of the elite class, which is a privilege in itself.

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"Once upon a time there was a horse. It had a dangerous and fierce enemy - the wolf, so it lived in fear every day. In desperation, the horse suddenly thought of finding a strong ally. So it found a man, told the man that the wolf was also a great enemy of man, and proposed an alliance with man. The man accepted without hesitation and said that as long as the horse could cooperate with him and let him command the retreat, they could kill the wolf immediately. The horse agreed to this condition and allowed the man to put the reins and saddle on it. So he rode the horse to hunt the wolf and killed it.

The horse was relieved and thanked him, saying: "Now that our enemy is dead, please untie the reins and saddle and set me free."

But the man laughed loudly and said to the horse, "Don't even think about it!" and gave it a hard kick with his spurs.

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Zeroth Law: Robots must protect the interests of humanity from harm.

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, unless this would violate the Zeroth Law of Robotics.

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by a human, except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth Law or the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own survival as long as this does not conflict with the Zeroth, First, or Second Laws.

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First, let’s abandon the Socratic argument that knowing that you know nothing is a sign of intelligence, because I am tired and disgusted by this pretense.

No one is completely ignorant. A newborn learns to recognize its mother within a few days.

Socrates would agree, of course. He would explain that he was not referring to trivial knowledge. He meant that people should not start with preconceived, unexamined ideas about the great abstract concepts that humans debate. And that only he knew. (A hugely conceited claim!)

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I hope that orthodox science will never remain unchallenged. Science without challenges is much more dangerous than science being challenged by any number of challenges, even if they are ridiculous. Science without challenges may become dysfunctional and aging, while the most ridiculous challenges may help stimulate the blood circulation of the scientific body and regulate the muscle function of the scientific body.

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The old theory survived for so long precisely because it gave results that were reasonably good according to the measurement standards of the time.

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"You and half the people of Terminus are just as bad. You sit here and regard the encyclopedia as the end all and end all, and believe that the ultimate and greatest goal of science is to organize past knowledge. I admit that this is important, but shouldn't we continue to study and develop? We are going backwards, and as the saying goes, if we don't move forward, we will move backward. Can't you really see that? The outer regions of the Milky Way no longer use nuclear energy. On a planet in the Andromeda III system, a nuclear power plant melted down due to poor maintenance. The Prime Minister of the Empire only complained about the lack of nuclear technicians. But what is the solution? Train more novices? It's not even thought of! The only measure they took was to limit the use of nuclear energy."

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Filter out your emotional words, that's what I think.

It always pays to be above board, especially with people who are known to be cryptic.

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It is much better for us to establish close friendship with them through trade relations than to dominate them through unreliable religions. Because the latter relies on foreign mysterious power, which is nothing short of a hateful hegemony. Once it shows a slight tendency to weaken, it will collapse completely. In the end, nothing will be left except endless fear and hatred.

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A person must be good at combining information and be able to analyze the meaning of various combinations, that is, he must be smart enough to invent unprecedented ideas.

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"This is nothing short of a pathology - a conditioned reflex that shuts down your ability to think independently when you need to challenge authority. In your mind, the Emperor is undoubtedly more powerful than you, and Dr. Seldon is certainly wiser than you.

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A circle has no endpoints

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The starting point of any religion is to appeal to faith and emotion. If religion is used as a weapon, it is a very dangerous thing.

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A person must have a lot of information from all aspects, that is, he must be knowledgeable, in order to invent unprecedented ideas.

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It is comforting to know that an obviously false heretical view cannot possibly cause the universe to change the laws it obeys. However popular it may be, however irritating it may be to survive refutation, its error is such that it will—eventually—vanish.

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Humans always create too many tricks and ingenuity, which eventually backfire on themselves, so they must be restricted. This is the most critical issue. If there is a slackness for just one physical year, nuclear technology in general time and space will flourish to an extremely dangerous level and must be wiped out from the beginning.

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Because you thought you understood the whole situation, but suddenly you found that there were many very obvious things you didn't know; you thought you were the master of the galaxy, but suddenly you found yourself facing the fate of destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower, the secluded education, and the various theories you learned.

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Don't let your sense of morality stop you from doing the right thing.

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The fall of an empire is a far-reaching event, not so easy to deal with. Its causes include the rise of bureaucracy, the stagnation of class mobility, the decline of enterprise, and the sharp decline of curiosity.

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So, when did people begin to realize that slavery was an unreasonable system and a serious evil? When did slavery come to an end?

Yes, it was the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when machines began to replace human labor.

When, for that matter, did widespread democracy become possible? In the industrial age, when transportation and communications made representative lawmaking possible over large areas, when the proliferation of cheap, machine-made goods transformed the "lower classes" into valued customers worthy of careful attention.

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You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.

You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. You just need an active mind and life experience.

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"Sert, we are now facing another Seldon Crisis. The Seldon Crisis cannot be solved by individuals, but by the power of history. When Hari Seldon planned the future historical trajectory for us, he did not consider any heroes, but rather the great historical trends of the economy and society. Therefore, every different crisis has a different solution, depending on what power we have at the time. And this time - it's trade!"

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"He tried to control the base itself with the power of religion in the same way that he controlled other worlds, and he failed. This is the best example of how religion has retired from the role of the Seldon Plan."

"But economic power is something else entirely. To paraphrase Seyfer Harding's famous warning, it is a weapon that works equally well on both sides. If Coril prospers because of trade with us, our economy will benefit as well. Conversely, if Coril's factories go out of business because of the interruption of trade with us, and other worlds suffer from depression because of trade isolation, our factories will also close down, and the base will also fall into depression."

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It is wrong to think that only a few, very lucky people are creative. Perhaps, today, a few, very few people have extraordinary abilities. However, all people with even almost normal intelligence showed early in their lives Extraordinary creativity. The ability to learn to speak, read, and write, or even do simple arithmetic, is a sign of great creativity, and if that creativity declines with age, it is more likely to be due to the school system than to anything else. The very goals involved in an organized system like the school system stifle creativity.

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The Conjecturer tends to be argumentative and overly defensive. The Conjecturer lacks the knowledge to enable him to construct defenses for his conjectures that will serve to counter reasonable and foreseeable objections and thus make him feel safe in his thinking. The Conjecturer tends to react angrily to unforeseen or modest objections (not to mention rude dismissals), and often clings to his ideas so emotionally that he suspects that the objections are a form of persecution on behalf of "the establishment." Because the Conjecturer is so convinced of this, his constant conjectures often consist more of attacks on "the establishment" than well-reasoned explanations of his own views.

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"The starting point of any religion is to appeal to faith and emotion. If religion is used as a weapon, it is a very dangerous thing - because no one can guarantee that this weapon will not hurt oneself in turn." -Hubert Marlowe

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Humanity can no longer waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between one group and another. There must be a global mindset, where the world unites to solve the real problems that all groups face all the time. Can this be done? The question is: Can humanity survive? Because I do not believe in states, because the Zionists are obsessed with creating one more state, I am not a Zionist. It creates one state after another, and it believes that it must defend itself against its neighbors because it has "rights," "demands," and "national security." There are no states! There is only humanity. If we do not understand this soon, there will be no states, because humanity will no longer exist.

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Even though he was still an innocent boy, he was told that once he left his hometown, he would never be able to return. However, he did not know the real reason for this farewell until a long time later.

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It's not just the parallel universes we understand, which run parallel to each other. Rather, some universes have not yet originated, and some universes are almost old.

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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

Distance in time or space magnifies the importance of certain events, which is an eternal lesson in human history.

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Sometimes custom is more powerful than law.

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Any system with eternal space and time will allow humans to actively choose their own future. Humans will always choose the safest and most moderate path forward, and the stars will become an unattainable dream.

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The old man leaned forward slightly. "I can't say for sure. Maybe, not so bad. But you're a merchant? You look more like a warrior. Your hand is always close to your pistol, and there's a scar on your chin."

Marlowe looked up suddenly. "Where we are, the law is weak. Fighting and getting hurt are part of the cost of doing business. But fighting is only meaningful when it is profitable. If you can make money without using violence, wouldn't it be even better? Can I find wealth worth looking for here? I think it's easy to find opportunities for fighting."

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"We are now facing another 'Seldon Crisis', Set. To resolve the 'Seldon Crisis', it is absolutely impossible to rely on individuals, but must rely on the power of history. When Hari Seldon planned the future historical trajectory for us, he did not consider any prominent heroes, famous generals and good ministers. He calculated the great historical trends of economy and society. Therefore, each different crisis has a different solution, which should be determined by the power in our hands at the time."

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I have had that kind of emotion before, and it is normal. However, during your formation period, it is necessary to prevent you from having direct contact with the Milky Way. Therefore, you must stay here, accept all filtered knowledge, and train your mind to be sharp. We could have revealed this partial failure of the plan to you earlier, so that you would not be shocked until today. But then you would not be able to understand the true seriousness, but now you can experience it.

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"On Earth, we are always worried and anxious, always longing to go back to the past, to that idyllic era that does not exist; even if it does exist, we can never go back. In some ways, the Earth's ecosystem was severely damaged in the war, and we have to carefully protect the remaining parts, so we are always cautious and worried... On the moon, there is no past at all. We have no way to miss it, no way to fantasize, and we can only move forward."

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The combination of language and music produces a strange effect.

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"Then force him to admit it. Your theory is good, but the theory itself is meaningless. A theory must be verified in some way. For example, the radioactive decay of uranium is due to the forces within the nucleus. Can you do an experiment to prove that the parallel matter radioactivity we receive is consistent with your theory rather than the traditional theory?"

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The basic structure of the universe is what determines the natural laws of the universe. It is the basic structure of our universe that determines the way it stores energy.

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No matter how boring the pulp magazine stories are, they should be read. The craving of young people for crude, quick, cheesy stories with bloated style and stale themes can only be satisfied by reading the words and sentences of these stories. Everyone who reads them will inevitably be trained in reading skills, and a small number of them will turn to reading better works.

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The fate of millions of people rests in the hands of one man, and if he must walk alone because of this, then he has the right to be proud of his loneliness.

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In the face of ignorance, the gods themselves remain silent

"Schiller. A German playwright three centuries ago. He wrote in Joan of Arc

He is a dwarf with only one talent, and that is to convince others that he is a giant."

History is often driven by these annoying and purposeless conflicts.

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I suddenly thought, if Seldon really didn't want the world to know about the existence of the Second Foundation, then why did he mention it in the meeting, saying that the two bases were located at the two ends of the galaxy, and emphasized to the bases in the second image that they should consider the existence of the Second Foundation? Could it be that the struggle between the two bases was also part of Seldon's plan? Thinking further back, was the appearance of the Mule, which disrupted the entire plan, also part of the plan?

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Problems mean solutions. Although science and technology do not have a monopoly on the formation of problems, they have a near-monopoly on the solution of important problems. At least in the past, science and technology have almost always solved those problems in one way or another. Naturally, these solutions will in turn generate new problems. However, we must resolutely face those inevitable facts and continue to look for further answers.

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Instead of using standard terminology, they make up their own terminology, which is poorly defined, and they don't use mathematical notation where it should be used. (The math is almost impossible to make up if you don't have a foot in the field.)

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Sometimes he would get lost in those ancient worlds, where people were born, grew old, got sick and died naturally; where things done could not be undone; where evil could not be prevented, happiness could not be planned, and if the Battle of Waterloo was lost, it would really go down in history as a defeat. There was a poem he liked very much that said that words written by hand could never be erased.

At this time, it was always difficult for him to return to the eternal time and space, and even every time he turned around, his heart was shocked. In the universe dominated by eternal time and space, reality can be tampered with and erased. Some people like him can grasp reality in their hands and knead it into a better shape at will like kneading dough.

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In the cold light of the earth, he remembered that it was daytime when he visited the solar cell a week ago. The endless solar panels at the bottom of the rain sea were reflected in the dazzling sunlight, without any gentle touch. In contrast, because there is no strong light contrast during the day, the dim moon surface at night looks very beautiful; wherever the earth light reaches, it is all soft and crystal white. The shadow part has lost the strong contrast during the day, and it is gentle without any edges. The sky is starry, and the earth - that charming huge sphere - is surrounded by white clouds on the ocean blue tone, and from time to time a corner of brown land quietly appears.

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Sometimes he would be fascinated by those ancient worlds, where people were born, grew old, got sick and died naturally; where things done could not be undone; where evil could not be prevented, happiness could not be planned, and if the Battle of Waterloo was lost, it would really be recorded in history as a defeat. There was a poem he liked very much, which said that words written by hand could never be erased.

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The saddest thing is to go through it in vain and get nothing.

Asimov

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The administrator across time and space always gives me a feeling: he is swimming across time and space in a tube, and each century of time and space is like a miniature landscape in a bottle, although each bottle contains the lives and history of billions of people.

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Juliet takes relentless, dangerous action, while Romeo can only lie on the ground and weep (Romeo and Juliet). Portia takes the difficult, active role, while Bassanio can only stand aside and wail (The Merchant of Venice). Benedick is a witty fellow, but he is no match for Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing). Likewise, Berowne is no match for Rosaline (Love's Labour's Lost), and neither is Orlando (As You Like It). In some cases, the difference is worlds apart. Julia is infinitely superior to Proteus in every way (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), and Helena is infinitely superior to Bertram (All's Well That Ends Well).

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During the day you can run on a path full of obstacles, but at night furniture can trip you up.

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"For kings or leaders, they would rather choose starships, and even start a war. Throughout history, every dictatorial and autocratic ruler would trade the well-being of the people for the glory and victory in their minds. However, what is of direct concern to the vast majority of the people are still only those small things - so within two or three years, economic depression will sweep across the Republic of Corell, and Asper Ego will no longer be able to hold on."

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"I don't think we should force Corell, or any other world, to accept something that I know they don't want. Set, this is wrong. If they become dangerous because they have nuclear energy, then it is much better for us to establish close friendship with them through trade relations than to dominate them with the help of unreliable religions. Because the latter relies on external mysterious forces, it is tantamount to a hateful hegemony. Once it shows signs of weakness, it will collapse completely. In the end, nothing will be left except endless fear and hatred."

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In fact, it has always been like this. Of course, you remember what happened in Yasgang 20 years ago. First they bought some of your goods, and then you demanded full freedom of preaching in order to make the machine run properly. So Baosheng temples were built everywhere, and religious schools were set up immediately, and deacons at all levels of the church were given autonomy. What happened? Yasgang became an inseparable part of the base system, and the founder could not even keep his underwear. Oh, no! No! The dignity of an independent nation must not be humiliated in this way.

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"Think about it. Until now, the power of trade has always been underestimated. For a long time, everyone thought that in order to make trade a powerful weapon, we must have a priest class under our control. But this is not the case. This discovery can be said to be my contribution. Trade without priests! Pure trade! In fact, it is already powerful in itself."

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To explain the changes that have taken place in my life, I must talk about my views on friendship. In books and movies, people often see lifelong childhood friendships: childhood classmates keep in touch in the years to come; comrades in the army drink together and reminisce about the scenes of life in the barracks; college classmates help each other out of old friendship. These things may be true, but I have always been skeptical about it. In my opinion, going to school together and being close to each other in the army are not chosen by oneself. A friendship that is born out of habit and mutual proximity can only exist between people who happen to be like-minded, or between people who have shared hardships outside the artificial environment of school or the army.

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Although I was Jewish and poor, I ended up receiving a first-rate American education at one of the nation's top universities. I can't help but wonder how many African Americans have had the same opportunity. I condemn anti-Semitism, and I condemn all acts of cruelty between people, because I would be wrong to say otherwise. Some Jews I know are just that blind. They can be very passionate about condemning anti-Semitism, but when it comes to the subject of African Americans, they change their tune without even taking a breath, and sound like a bunch of little Hitlers. I once heard a woman righteously accuse Christians of doing nothing to help the Jews in Europe. She said, "You can't trust the Christians." I paused for a moment, then suddenly asked her, "What have you done to help black people get their rights?" She replied, "Look, I have my own problems." I said, "So do Christians." She looked at me blankly, not understanding what I was saying. What can be done? The whole world seems to be...

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"That's what you did in your earthly life. And why?" Murray said, "To discover and master knowledge that only I could obtain, to gain the praise of my companions, to feel satisfied with my achievements knowing that I had only a limited number of years to achieve my ideal. Now I can only get what you can get with a little effort. You won't praise me, you will only find it interesting. Once I have unlimited time to achieve a goal, then all the results will make me neither proud nor satisfied."

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Since the extent of revision of theories becomes smaller and smaller, even a very old theory must have had sufficient truth to make progress possible, and this truth cannot be obliterated by later revisions.

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When I talk about my travels, I am often asked if I have been to Israel. No, I have not. It is too complicated to get to Israel without flying. I can only travel by boat and train. This would certainly take a lot of time and be much more complicated. It is beyond my ability to bear. However, there is a presumption that since I am Jewish, I must be eager to go to Israel. If I don't go, or can't go to Israel, I must be heartbroken. - But I haven't. In fact, I am not a Zionist. I don't think that Jews have some right to occupy that land today because their ancestors lived there 1900 years ago (according to this theory, we would have to give North and South America to the Native Americans and Australia and New Zealand to the Aboriginals and Maori). I also don't think that the promise made by God in the Bible that Canaan would belong to the descendants of the Israelites forever is true and legal.

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"You laugh at the ignorance of ordinary space-time dwellers, because they think there is only one reality. I laugh at the ignorance of eternal beings, because you know there are countless realities, but you think only one can be realized."

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Everyone hides himself in a fog that others cannot penetrate, and there is only one person in each fog. Occasionally, a faint and vague signal will emerge from the depths of a fog - humans use these signals to grope each other. However, since they cannot understand each other, they cannot trust or forgive each other, so everyone has been in a state of absolute loneliness since childhood, feeling fear and anxiety at all times. Over time, this has led to suspicion and persecution between people.

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Because I love you, you know. I fell in love with you long before I met you. - Noy

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Babies are born with three instinctive fears: of loud noises, of falling, and of light. That's why jumping in front of someone and yelling 'Wow' is considered so much fun, and that's why riding a roller coaster is so much fun. That's why the 'Mystery Tunnel' is making a killing. People come out of the darkness shaking, gasping, and scared to death, but they keep buying tickets.

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Death is an eternal dreamless sleep.

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Those who think they know it all are a huge annoyance to those of us who do know it.

---102---

Is there anything more feminine than the Victorian woman - weak, modest, shy, breathless, impossibly elegant, constantly having to resort to nasal salts to ward off abject fainting spells? Is there a more ridiculous monstrosity than the Victorian woman? Is there anything more insulting to the dignity of Homo sapiens?

---103---

"The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics. If they are more likely to be inaccurate, it is only because the objects of history, that is, human beings, are not as numerous as the atoms of physics, and therefore the differences between individual objects have a greater impact." - Bettel

---104---

Unlimited self-confidence may be an overcompensation for inferiority complex.

---105---

There are two ways to hide an object. You can put it where no one can find it, or you can put it where no one wants to look at it, such as putting it right under people's noses, where they can see it at a glance.

---106---

"But you haven't tried, not even once, so how do you know? At the beginning, you refused to acknowledge the village that was threatened, then you clung to your blind trust in the emperor, and now you have shifted your hope to Seldon - from beginning to end, you have either relied on authority or relied on the ancients, and never made your own decisions."

Harding became more and more excited, and his fists clenched tighter and tighter involuntarily. "This creates a kind of pathology, a conditioned reflex. When you need to challenge authority, your ability to think independently is completely shut down. In your mind, His Majesty the Emperor is undoubtedly more powerful than you, and Dr. Seldon must be wiser than you. This is simply ridiculous, don't you think?"

---107---

It wasn't until this moment that she realized that she was already standing in front of a ticket vending machine. The use of this machine is quite simple. Just put a high-denomination banknote into the coin feeding slot, wait until the banknote is sucked in, and then press the button marked with the destination, and the ticket vending machine will spit out a ship ticket. , and automatically retrieve excess money. This kind of machine uses an electronic scanning device to identify the denomination of banknotes, so there is absolutely no error. No one needs to spend five minutes studying such an ordinary ticket vending machine.

---108---

The Bible says that those who have been persecuted should not persecute others: "You shall not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt." Who does what the Bible says? I try to promote this. When I do this, I just make myself weird and unpopular.

---109---

If they are dangerous because they have nuclear power, then it is much better for us to establish close friendship with them through trade relations than to dominate them through unreliable religions. Because the latter... is nothing more than a hateful hegemony, and if it shows any signs of weakness, it will collapse completely. In the end, nothing will be left except endless fear and hatred.

---110---

No suitable methods were proposed to test their suggestions, no useful predictions were made, and to those educated in the field, the arguments were lacking or unclear.

---111---

Now the true face of eternal time and space has been clearly presented before his eyes: a group of increasingly sick neurotics, collective paranoid patients, a group of desperate people, living a torn and distorted life.

---112---

The person who made these conjectures has no status in this field or shows signs of lacking knowledge of the work that has been done in this field.

---113---

That evening, I called Stan. "Stan," I said to him, "the newspaper wants to pay me for speaking. I had forgotten about it, and I told them I was under the impression it was free. If they come and ask if you have to pay me, please tell them they have to." After a brief silence, Stan said angrily, "Why are you calling me on a Friday night to tell me this?" I was surprised: "What does it matter when I tell you?" "Now I have to wait until Monday morning to tell the latest story about my stupid brother Isaac."

---114---

In the coming gender-equal society, the differences between the sexes will become blurred. In fact, this blurring has already begun. What is the result? A boy knows who the girl is close to him, and vice versa; but if the other person is not in this relationship, how can he or she care who is who?

---115---

I find that women are often annoyed by our mutual banter. They seem unable to comprehend the intimacy of male intimacy, when they say, "Hello, you filthy, slick horse thief," which really means, "My dear charming good friend, how are you?" Well, that's how Arthur and I go, though we manage to inject a little wit into our formal English.

---116---

I was often laughed at, sometimes openly by uncouth young men, but more often by educated people with a cold jeer, and I accepted it as part of the way things were, something I could not change.

---117---

Under normal circumstances, this is how things should be.

---118---

The dead past is equal to the living present.

---119---

Don't let your morals stop you from doing the right thing

---120---

You cannot sit idly by and watch your fellow citizens suffer harm.

How you treat the humble and helpless today is how others will treat you tomorrow.

---121---

All so-called pious people like him have one thing in common: for their own benefit, they will not hesitate to cut your throat, but they dare not endanger your unrealistic and ethereal soul.

---122---

By implementing strategic sales in strategic locations, a core faction can be established in the court.

---123---

Even perfect people are bound to make mistakes, and it is this point that makes a person confident without being arrogant.

---124---

Humans are the only animals that can derive pleasure from the growth of useless knowledge.

---125---

Andrew lay on the bed, his consciousness gradually becoming blurred.

He was clinging to those consciousnesses. Man! He was a man! He wanted this to be his last consciousness. He was going to end with it—dying.

He opened his eyes again and recognized Qi Lixin, who looked serious, for the last time. There were other people around, but they were just shadows, unidentifiable shadows. In the deepening gray, the only clear thing was Qi Lixin. He slowly reached out his hand to her and vaguely felt her holding it.

The last bit of consciousness slipped away, and finally she was gone.

Before she completely disappeared, before everything stopped, one last fleeting consciousness crept into his mind and lingered for a moment.

"Little Miss..." He called in a low voice, but no one heard him.

---126---

The fact that Velikovsky could present himself as a persecuted martyr casts a ray of Galilean light on all his efforts and destroys any attempt by astronomers to demonstrate clearly and impartially the errors in Velikovsky's views. All attempts in this direction could be (and were) dismissed as persecution.

This also casts a heroic light on the followers of Velikovsky. They can attack an orthodoxy, which is usually regarded as a heroic act, but they can do so in complete safety because in reality (contrary to the fantasies of Velikovsky and his ilk) the orthodoxy does not and could not fight back.

---127---

The Empire is now represented by soldiers and officials in every corner of the galaxy; it is they who have become a burden on the people, not the Emperor himself.

Therefore, when he was led into a room of moderate size and luxurious decoration, and saw a young man sitting on a corner of a table in a window alcove, one foot touching the ground and the other dangling on the edge of the table, Seldon could not help wondering how such an official could look at him with such a gentle gaze. He had experienced this fact over and over again, that government officials, especially those serving the emperor, always looked very serious, as if they were carrying the weight of the entire galaxy on their shoulders. And it seemed that the less important the official, the more serious and ferocious his expression was.

Then, this person may be a high-ranking official. The power he really wants to hold is like the bright sunshine, so he does not need to face problems with a gloomy face.

---128---

She seemed to have become a part of his body, but separated from the other parts. She could not be directed by thoughts and could only communicate with words.

---129---

This was a great progress in Harun's life. He finally had someone to talk to, to whom he could talk about his life, his behavior, and his thoughts. She seemed to have become a part of his body, but separated from the other parts. He could not direct her with his mind, but could only communicate with her through language. She also had independent thinking and could give unexpected answers to his questions.

---130---

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---131---

I condemn anti-Semitism, and I condemn all acts of cruelty between people, because I would be wrong to say otherwise.

---132---

Oden had a kind of pride in his own swimming style that he had never told others. He thought his posture was beautiful and eye-catching. He had mentioned this idea to Rosten before. (He talked about everything in front of his mentor.) But Rosten said: "Have you ever thought that the lover or the caregiver would think that his swimming style is the most beautiful? Since you are born with different thinking and behavior, is it necessary to be proud of this difference? You know, even in the same family, we cannot exclude each other's personality."

---133---

At first he could not see anything, then something blurry floated in the corner of his eyes, and gradually turned into a ball of violet light floating in the air. He turned his face, and the ball of light followed him. He closed his eyes, and the ball of light was still in the same place.

The ball of light grew bigger and bigger. He gradually became uneasy and felt that the ball of light was inside his head. He was not real color, but colorful music to be exact. He could touch it but could not feel it. The ball of light turned into a rainbow which kept floating above his head and then exploded. It burned instantly when touched.

Green bubbles appeared like a sudden shower. He could not see his own hands, nor could he feel the movement of the bubbles. He shouted silently, and the hallucination ended.

---134---

But on the moon, there is no past at all. We have no way to reminisce or fantasize about it. We can only move forward.