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“How did you like the show?” Gaal said, “You stole it. But what will happen now?”
Bars
Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy.
Space, man, have you no respect for science?”
Have you ever thought of working onward, extending their knowledge and improving upon it? No!
wigmawolish
It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity—common sense.
We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done? We’re receding and forgetting, don’t you see?
Space!
Im obsessed with the fact that "Space" is an exclamation in this world
You were busy being born when it happened,
BAR
It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
“I’m afraid,” he said, “that our position is what is usually termed, in melodramatic phraseology, a ‘Lost Cause.’ ”
Same
some sort to install as king someone more favorable to the Foundation.
which is the king, who is regarded as a sort of minor god.
So the boy king is only a god bc Fdn made it so?
but even the priests believe them, while working them personally.”
not only in the poetical sense but also in a very literal way—and
The throne would not have been so massive, of course, if it had not had a shielded nuclear motor built into it.
Crazy theyre centralizing all this wealth/power
For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.
Lfg
misty lens-form that was the body of the Galaxy,
Honestly kinda vibing with the lack of explanations on space stuff
but that entirely different thing, an agent of the Foundation!
Ok drama
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
Can you get a woman? Any young female will do.
The mention of women, finally <3
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“Do you realize what women will pay for that sort of jewelry? Ten thousand credits, at least.”
I hate men
My father would pulverize your toy nation to meteoric dust.
Mmm only talking abt her beauty and her father's power
The stars may not change even in centuries, but political boundaries are all too fluid.”
Wiscard’s
I had six sons. Five died—variously. I had a daughter. I hope she died, eventually.
“How? What are you going to do?” “Nothing.” Jael smiled uncertainly. “Really! All of that!”
a woman’s nuclear knife won’t work any more. Her stove begins failing. Her washer doesn’t do a good job.
BFFR
