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Was his controlled mind so concerned with obedience as to lose initiative?
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
“In fact, the world fascinates me. I have never seen a more forbidding one, yet I am convinced there is no suffering among the population and that their uncomplicated lives manage to contain a well-balanced happiness lacking in the sophisticated populations of the advanced centers.”
Tazenda brings happiness and sufficiency. Don’t you see that the whole orientation of their domination is different? It is not physical, but psychological.”
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Kalgan was at the service, therefore, successively—and successfully—of the effete and perfumed dandies of the Imperial Court with their sparkling and libidinous ladies; of the rough and raucous warlords who ruled in iron the worlds they had gained in blood, with their unbridled and lascivious wenches; of the plump and luxurious businessmen of the Foundation, with their lush and flagitious mistresses.
help of inevitability—and of courage and persistence.”
The Foundation has always been defeated at first and has always won in the end.
It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.
