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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

Isaac Asimov
Drinking, Science, Giving
The Journal of NIH Research, 2, p. 30, 1990.

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Isaac Asimov
Rain, Oxygen, Giving

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

Isaac Asimov
Dream, Giving, Peculiar
Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.204, Spectra

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

Isaac Asimov
Men, Light, Giving
"The Last Question". Science Fiction Quarterly, archive.org. November 1956.

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

Isaac Asimov
New York, Diversity, Giving
Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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