Foundation Sentences, Vol. 1
(Sentences from Foundation (2021-). Adjust phrasing where needed)
"Do you ever wish there was another way?"
"All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else. Now I realise how much I'll miss this view."
"They all hate me. You don't hate me, do you?"
"When people are afraid to do their job right, they're certain to do it wrong."
"I was lonely. Almost no one there thought like I thought."
"Maths doesn't take sides. It doesn't judge."
"I imagine you were lonely - a mind like yours in a place like that."
"They're going to arrest me tomorrow, and you. It's almost a certainty."
"People lie. Numbers don't."
"They think I'm the only one who can prove you wrong."
"There's more at stake here than you can imagine."
"Art is simply politics' sweeter tongue."
"A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two."
"And I should believe in you? A spy?"
"We're all different, and if you don't know why, I urge you to figure it out before someone else does and uses it against you."
"Change is frightening, especially for those in power."
"Someone's going to hang for this. I'd like it to be the guilty one."
"Not every choice will be like this one."
"Are you unhappy with your successor?"
"I don't forget anything - or anyone."
"Repeated luck is never luck."
"A weapon's only as good as the man who's wielding it."
"I don't recall asking for your medical advice."
"You're desperate and scared, and desperate people make mistakes."
"The search for meaning is not always about the answer. It's also the process of seeking that enlightens."
"You're already dead - you just don't know it yet."
"An entire galaxy can pivot around the actions of an individual."
"You're too smart to play the victim."
"I liked you better when you were dying."
"You simply have no concept of revenge, do you?"
"Your lack of understanding does not obligate me to explain."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"Past behaviour is the best predictor of future performance."
"When all the facts fall short of believability, fantasy feels reassuringly solid."
"You had no choice in any of this, but thank you just the same."
"Never presume to understand what I want."
"You are stupid, naive, gullible. So was I at your age, and these things are forgivable."
"Forget logic. Try empathy."
"I know people hate me, consider me evil, but it is my detachment - my indifference to suffering - that allows me to be effective."
"Do you ever think about your legacy? The mark you leave behind after you're gone?"
"Do you still believe humanity can do better?"
