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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: [[spoiler:After confronting Bander, the Solarian, and having to kill him/her rather than be killed, Trevize and his companions come across Bander's child, Fallom, on their way out. When it turns out that Fallom wasn't officially registered anywhere and will simply be executed, they take the child with them]].
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: "The Foundation believes in the Seldon believes in the Sheldon Plan, though no one in our realm can understand it, interpret its details, or use it to predict. We follow blindly out of ignorance and faith, and isn't that superstition?" So Trevize, by (publicly) questioning the accuracy of the Plan (starting in the previous book), has started moving away from this specific superstition.

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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: "The Foundation believes in the Seldon believes in the Sheldon Plan, though no one in our realm can understand it, interpret its details, or use it to predict. We follow blindly out of ignorance and faith, and isn't that superstition?" So Trevize, by (publicly) questioning the accuracy of the Plan (starting in the previous book), has started moving away from this specific superstition.
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: "The Foundation believes in the Seldon believes in the Sheldon Plan, though no one in our realm can understand it, interpret its details, or use it to predict. We follow blindly out of ignorance and faith, and isn't that superstition?" So Trevize, by (publicly) questioning the accuracy of the Plan (starting in the previous book), has started moving away from this specific superstition.
** He also believes that Gaia's blind belief in the rightness of his intuitions is something that needs to be questioned.
--->"[Y]ou do not know why I should be right, or how safe it would be for you to follow that decision. You are only willing to go along out of ignorance and faith, and are even annoyed with me for trying to find evidence that will remove the ignorance and make mere faith unnecessary. Isn't that superstition?"
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* CloningBlues: Pelorat lampshades it at one point, telling Bander that hermaphroditic reproduction is a dead end. Bander states in return they use genetic engineering whenever they want.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While approaching Comporellon- the third planet Pelorat and Trevize could visit together- Pelorat thinks to himself that he assumed that you could just look at each planet's surface and see its features, such as seas, lakes, and landmasses. There's just one problem: "If a world was habitable, it had an atmosphere as well as a hydrosphere. And if it had both air and water, it had clouds; and if it had clouds, it had an obscured view."

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While approaching Comporellon- Comporellon -- the third planet Pelorat and Trevize could visit together- together -- Pelorat thinks to himself that he assumed that you could just look at each planet's surface and see its features, such as seas, lakes, and landmasses. There's just one problem: "If a world was habitable, it had an atmosphere as well as a hydrosphere. And if it had both air and water, it had clouds; and if it had clouds, it had an obscured view."
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'''Pelorat:''' Pardon me, you certainly seem to be a taxi-driver. [[ShapedLikeItself You're driving a taxi]]."\\
'''Security Officer:''' Anyone might drive a taxi. Not everyone has a license to do so. And not every car that looks like a taxi is a taxi."

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'''Pelorat:''' Pardon me, you certainly seem to be a taxi-driver. [[ShapedLikeItself You're driving a taxi]]."\\
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'''Security Officer:''' Anyone might drive a taxi. Not everyone has a license to do so. And not every car that looks like a taxi is a taxi."
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** In a related point, he decides that each planets' shifting cloud cover makes distinguishing between them from space basically impossible (or at least very difficult). Trevize points out that, even without using tools like radar, you can still use detailes such as the tilt of the planetary axis and orbital inclination to learn a few details, such as which hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. Not every planet has the exact same weather patterns.

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** In a related point, he decides that each planets' shifting cloud cover makes distinguishing between them from space basically impossible (or at least very difficult). Trevize points out that, even without using tools like radar, you can still use detailes details such as the tilt of the planetary axis and orbital inclination to learn a few details, such as which hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. Not every planet has the exact same weather patterns.

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"Hiding or being hidden. Once I find that out, I have the feeling I will know why I have chosen Gaia and Galaxia over our individuality. ''

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"Hiding or being hidden. Once I find that out, I have the feeling I will know why I have chosen Gaia and Galaxia over our individuality. ''


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* FridgeLogic: Despite having lived on a planet with clouds that would obscure parts of the sky, Pelorat apparently never made the connection that those same clouds should obscure a view of the ground from space. (See SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, where he assumed he would be able to view the surface detail of any planet he visited.)


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** In a related point, he decides that each planets' shifting cloud cover makes distinguishing between them from space basically impossible (or at least very difficult). Trevize points out that, even without using tools like radar, you can still use detailes such as the tilt of the planetary axis and orbital inclination to learn a few details, such as which hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. Not every planet has the exact same weather patterns.
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* ExactWords: When the trio attempt to hire a taxi on Comporellan, they find out that the 'taxi-driver' is merely someone driving the vehicle (which may not even be a taxi).

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* ExactWords: When the trio attempt to hire a taxi on Comporellan, Comporellon, they find out that the 'taxi-driver' is merely someone driving the vehicle (which may not even be a taxi).



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While approaching Comporellan- the third planet Pelorat and Trevize could visit together- Pelorat thinks to himself that he assumed that you could just look at each planet's surface and see its features, such as seas, lakes, and landmasses. There's just one problem: "If a world was habitable, it had an atmosphere as well as a hydrosphere. And if it had both air and water, it had clouds; and if it had clouds, it had an obscured view."

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While approaching Comporellan- Comporellon- the third planet Pelorat and Trevize could visit together- Pelorat thinks to himself that he assumed that you could just look at each planet's surface and see its features, such as seas, lakes, and landmasses. There's just one problem: "If a world was habitable, it had an atmosphere as well as a hydrosphere. And if it had both air and water, it had clouds; and if it had clouds, it had an obscured view."
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* ExactWords: When the trio attempt to hire a taxi on Comporellan, they find out that the 'taxi-driver' is mearly someone driving the vehicle (which may not even be a taxi).

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* ExactWords: When the trio attempt to hire a taxi on Comporellan, they find out that the 'taxi-driver' is mearly merely someone driving the vehicle (which may not even be a taxi).
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* ExactWords: When the trio attempt to hire a taxi on Comporellan, they find out that the 'taxi-driver' is mearly someone driving the vehicle (which may not even be a taxi).
-->'''Security Officer:''' If I were a taxi-driver, I would take you where you want to go. Since I'm not, I take you where ''I'' want to go.\\
'''Pelorat:''' Pardon me, you certainly seem to be a taxi-driver. [[ShapedLikeItself You're driving a taxi]]."\\
'''Security Officer:''' Anyone might drive a taxi. Not everyone has a license to do so. And not every car that looks like a taxi is a taxi."

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