Isaac Asimov Quotes
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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One with the law is a majority.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
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As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.
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Any time you have a dream job of where you want to work, it's so incredible, and I don't think that people realize it could go away.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
