"That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds."

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"There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn’t help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back."

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"There can never be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corrdiors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember."

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"It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots."

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"To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know."

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"The same man who could not find it in his conscience to curb his curiosity into the nuclear studies that might someday kill half of Earth would risk his life to save that of an unimportant fellow man."

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"Daneel rose. He was alone - and with a Galaxy to care for."

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"Goodbye, friend Elijiah, and remember that, although people apply the phrase to Aurora, it is, from this point on, Earth itself that is the true World of the Dawn."

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"Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year."

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"Anything could be found in figures if the search were long enough and hard enough and if the proper pieces of information were ignored or overlooked."

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