“Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.”
“Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.”
“How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?”
“When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?”
“Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.”
“Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.”
“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”
“It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.”
“The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives—past and present and to come—forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time. Even the Spacers are an offshoot of the tapestry and they, too, add to the elaborateness and beauty of the pattern. An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole? Daneel, keep your mind fixed firmly on the tapestry and do not let the trailing off of a single thread affect you.”
“All of us bear God’s image, all are worthy to be loved, all can grow in the spirit of God.”
“It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.”
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”
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