Notes and highlights for
I, Robot (The Robot Series)
Asimov, Isaac
Introduction
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frosty
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hypertrophy
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lushly
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occiput
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hackneyed
Chapter 1
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profound
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incessant
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hardy
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braving
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merest
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ingratitude
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pantomimed
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veer
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fanning
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parallelepiped
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gingham
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appallingly
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scant
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crowed
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air - coaster .
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irrefutable
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pompously ,
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undaunted
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blunt - nosed
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lickety - split
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alacrity
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quavered
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shan’t
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disconsolate
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hatches
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dilapidated
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unutterably
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Lefebre - Yoshida expedition to Mars
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weary
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And yet he loved his wife — and what was worse , his wife knew it . George Weston , after all was only a man — poor thing — and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned , with reason and futility , to fear .
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agonized
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visivox
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precipitously
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quavered
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spluttered
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shrill
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wail
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morosely
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from yielding was the impossibility of admitting defeat to her husband .
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flounced
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Preliminaries
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taxi - gyro
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intentness
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acute
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penetration ,
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temper rather bent
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tartly
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dissipating
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archaism
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mad Twenties
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quaint
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ogled
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prosaic
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tour de force
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pothooks
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conscientious
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over - abundantly
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genially
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pince - nez
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convulsive
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flight of stairs
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sluices
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contempt
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tremulous
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asphyxiated
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Gregory Powell
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Michael Donovan
Chapter 2
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platitudes
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perspiration ,
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gingerly
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MacDougal
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aplomb
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syllogism
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Sunside Mining Station
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Stillhead Dielectrode Plate
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MacDougal’s spectroreflector
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succinctly
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thwack
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withal
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desiccating
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stirrup
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groove
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ponderously
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plodded
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jagged
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pumice
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selective flexors
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Iolanthe
Chapter 3
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inscrutable
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burnished
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Luxites
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squiggles
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timbre
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diaphragm
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ingrooved
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grave
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inquisitive
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mastication
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glowered
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imperturbably
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lumpily
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deprecatory
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intelligibility
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coagulate
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reproachfully
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brass
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snarled
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devoutly
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beatific
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“ You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates . We have ours and Cutie has his . ”
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postulates
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ultraspicules
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incandescent
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commiseration
Chapter 4
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fortuitous
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drawing - board men
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slide - rule boys
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beety
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bidden a fond farewell
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You’re as lucid as Euclid with everything except the facts .
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luminiferous
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reverently
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prima donnaish
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swell
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queasy
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mortification
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copiously
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besweated
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unsettled
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resentful
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injudicious
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calisthenic
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invariably
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accursed .
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velvety
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aberration
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danse macabre
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subsided
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reciting by rote
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buttressing
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witticism
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teetered
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plotter
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triplicate
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Interminable
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dredged
Chapter 5
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Mathematician Peter Bogert
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pill - concentrate
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insoluble
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The corner of Dr . Calvin’s lip twitched , “ I was afraid you would . It’s difficult to work with you , Herbie . You’re always a step ahead of me . ” “ It’s the same with these books , you know , as with the others . They just don’t interest me . There’s nothing to your textbooks . Your science is just a mass of collected data plastered together by make - shift theory — and all so incredibly simple , that it’s scarcely worth bothering about . “ It’s your fiction that interests me . Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotions ” — his mighty hand gestured vaguely as he sought the proper words .
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reddening
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timbre
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wistfulness
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insistence
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shriveled
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strident
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clang .
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spread - eagled
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cowered
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vivacity
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convulsive
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tripe
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leer
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complacency
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ingratiating
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inarticulate
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fascinatedly
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bestow
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cursory glance
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scarcely
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hyper - imaginaries
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asnarl
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inexpertly
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splotches
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agitation
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tenseness
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spasmodically
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coolly
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sardonic
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frantically
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caustically
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curtly
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piccolo
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insoluble
Chapter 6
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libellous
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rattling
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perceptible
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hangdog
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vinegary
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secrecy
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impressionment
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trifle
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lassitude
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thrust
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perennial
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sleekness
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feebly
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tearing
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cajolingly
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intricate
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revulsion
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uneasiness
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neurotic
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impolitic
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laconically
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etheric physics
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nauseated
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mopped
Chapter 7
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alacrity
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jubilant
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scorn
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idiot savante
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“ It doesn’t make much sense , I admit , in lay language ; but there is no conceivable use in presenting the mathematics of this . I assure you , it is as I say . ” The general manager was in the breach instantly and fluently , “ So here’s the situation , chief . If we take the deal , we can put it through like this . The Brain will tell us which unit of information involves the dilemma . From there , we can figure why the dilemma . Isn’t that right , Dr . Bogert ? There you are , chief , and Dr . Bogert is the best mathematician you’ll find anywhere . We give Consolidated a ‘ No Solution ’ answer , with the reason , and collect a hundred thousand .
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manplaining at its finest?
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“ If one and a half chickens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days , how many eggs will nine chickens lay in nine days ? ” The Brain had just answered , “ Fifty - four . ”
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Dr . Calvin coughed and there was a sudden impossible flurry of directionless energy .
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ferociously
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rejoinder
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ruminating
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There’s a peculiar overripe flavor to your humor at its freshest , and the confined atmosphere here isn’t helping it
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ineffectual
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peevish
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literary
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martinet
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wide - flaring
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profoundly
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clangor
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paralytic
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spasm
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contorted
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mussable
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Pollyanna
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stentorian and petrifying
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repetitious
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interlarded
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adulterated
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emphatic
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enameled
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finicky
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sulkily
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sullen
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sight
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writhed
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unctuous
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sonorous
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“ Does your coffin fit differently lately ? Why not try Morbid M . Cadaver’s extensible caskets ? They are scientifically designed to fit the natural curves of the body , and are enriched with Vitamin B1 . Use Cadaver’s caskets for comfort . Remember — you’re — going — to — be — dead — a — long — long — time ! ”
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rascal
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quivered
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stentorian
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circumlocutions
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unjarringly
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tyke
Chapter 8
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canvassed
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politics makes strange bedfellows
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acidity
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lawyer now , but great oaks —
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thumped
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aqueous
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brusquely
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bromide
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hoodwinking
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idiosyncrasy
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neurotic
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suppositious
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obstinacy
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to palm something
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shyster
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swathed
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incipient
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harrumphed
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ovum
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enormity
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perfunctorily
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pretense
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hungering
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falsetto ,
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visorphone
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Penet - radiation
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“ They might . It’s rather symbolic of our two campaigns , isn’t it ? You have little concern with the rights of the individual citizen . I have great concern . I will not submit to X - ray analysis , because I wish to maintain my Rights on principle . Just as I’ll maintain the rights of others when elected . ”
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viciousness
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imperturbably
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leafing
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transliterable
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inchoate
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claques
Chapter 9
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accentuated
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‘ not with a bang , but a whimper , ’
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Stephen Byerley continued , “ And although the Machines are nothing but the vastest conglomeration of calculating circuits ever invented , they are still robots within the meaning of the First Law , and so our Earth - wide economy is in accord with the best interests of Man . The population of Earth knows that there will be no unemployment , no overproduction or shortages . Waste and famine are words in history books . And so the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent . Whoever owned them ( if such a phrase has meaning ) , a man , a group , a nation , or all mankind , they could be utilized only as the Machines directed . — Not because men were forced to but because it was the wisest course and men knew it .
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errors in the answers .
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Perhaps roboticists as a whole should now die , since we can no longer understand our own creations . ”
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The Machines are not superbrains in Sunday supplement sense
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dutiful
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sinecure
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incongruous
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pteroyl - glutamic acid
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brine - evaporation
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receivership
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It was the reverse of the Eastern Region . Where the ant hives of the Orient crowded half of humanity into 15 percent of the land mass , the Tropics stretched its 15 percent of humanity over nearly half of all the land in the world . But it was growing . It was the one Region whose population increase through immigration exceeded that through births . — And for all who came it had use .
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pallards
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dregs
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skeltered
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contours
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Homo metropolis
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Of all the Regions , it alone showed a positive population decline over the past half century .
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“ At least the tempo of life is not as intense as in the other Regions . It is a pleasant atmosphere . ”
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decadent squalor
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fastened
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shrewdly
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hitherto
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restiveness
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dourly
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innumerable
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The Machine is only a tool after all , which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back . The task of the human brain remains what it has always been ; that of discovering new data to be analyzed , and of devising new concepts to be tested .
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reactionaries
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“ It’s obvious to me , and should be to you . It is a matter of rocking the boat , deliberately . There can be no serious conflicts on Earth , in which one group or another can seize more power than it has for what it thinks is its own good despite the harm to Mankind as a whole , while the Machines rule . If popular faith in the Machines can be destroyed to the point where they are abandoned , it will be the law of the jungle again . — And not one of the four Regions can be freed of the suspicion of wanting just that .
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“ The East has half of humanity within its borders , and the Tropics more than half of Earth’s resources . Each can feel itself the natural rulers of all Earth , and each has a history of humiliation by the North , for which it can be human enough to wish a senseless revenge . Europe has a tradition of greatness , on the other hand . It once did rule the Earth , and there is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power .
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And Europe can have nothing but its dreams . It is a cipher , militarily .
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The Tropic Regions may take their place in the forefront of civilization for the first time since the Pharaohs , and there are Northerners who fear that .
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combines
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“ And so should I say , and so should the Machines say . Their first care , therefore , is to preserve themselves , for us . And so they are quietly taking care of the only elements left that threaten them . It is not the ‘ Society for Humanity ’ which is shaking the boat so that the Machines may be destroyed . You have been looking at the reverse of the picture . Say rather that the Machine is shaking the boat — very slightly — just enough to shake loose those few which cling to the side for purposes the Machines consider harmful to humanity .
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“ Why , Stephen , if I am right , it means that the Machine is conducting our future for us not only simply in direct answer to our direct questions , but in general answer to the world situation and to human psychology as a whole . And to know that may make us unhappy and may hurt our pride . The Machine cannot , must not , make us unhappy .
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“ Stephen , how do we know what the ultimate good of humanity will entail ? We haven’t at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its ! Perhaps , to give you a not unfamiliar example , our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed . Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization , with less culture and less people would be better . If so , the Machines must move in that direction , preferably without telling us , since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to , is good — and we would then fight change . Or perhaps a complete urbanization , or a completely caste - ridden society , or complete anarchy , is the answer . We don’t know . Only the Machines know , and they are going there and taking us with them . ”
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“ But you are telling me , Susan , that the ‘ Society for Humanity ’ is right ; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future . ” “ It never had any , really . It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand — at the whims of climate , and the fortunes of war . Now the Machines understand them ; and no one can stop them , since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society , — having , as they do , the greatest of weapons at their disposal , the absolute control of our economy . ” “ How horrible ! ”
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evitable