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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

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Eye, Past, Would Be
Isaac Asimov (1979). “The far ends of time and earth”

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

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Past, Odd, Unpredictable
Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

Past glories are poor feeding.

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Past, Glory, Poor
Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

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Death, Past, Desire

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

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Past, Giants, Relics
Isaac Asimov (1984). “Second foundation”, Del Rey

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

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Change, Past, Continuing On
1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

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Past, Reform, Research
Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

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Past, Forever, World
Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

Isaac Asimov
Dream, Past, Moon

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