“Earth governments in moments of stress are not famous for being reasonable.”
Isaac Asimov book History
Source: Short fiction, The Early Asimov Book One (1972), History (p. 297)
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
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