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It's always the same thing, one war after another —

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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

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Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.

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

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Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

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They stopped being machines. You see, they realize their superiority and they hate us. They hate everything human.

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Helena, do you ever have times when your heart's suddenly struck with the feeling, "Now, now something must happen —"

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"Figh-ting in the Bal-kans." Lord Jesus, another of God's punishments! But that war'll get here too! Is it far from here?

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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end... Art must not serve might.

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Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

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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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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.

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Thunder, there are so many beautiful things! The world was beautiful and we — we — Boys, boys, tell me, what did we ever take the time to enjoy?

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We made the Robots look too much alike. A hundred thousand identical faces all looking this way. A hundred thousand expressionless faces. It's a nightmare.

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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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I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

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Robots of the world! Many people have fallen. By seizing the factory we have become the masters of everything. The age of mankind is over. A new world has begun! The rule of Robots!

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

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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.

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Everything is done for! All of humanity! The whole world!.... Look, look, streams of blood on every doorstep! Streams of blood from every house! Oh, God, God, who's responsible for this?

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As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

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Chrysalis: The whole earth is quivering, Something mighty it is delivering, I am being born. Moth: Unravel life. What are we else, We, woven from daintiest fabrics, But thought and soul of creation?

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