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The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
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Brian Herbert |
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raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death. --ERASMUS,
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philosophy
duality
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The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
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Brian Herbert |
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Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell." - General Agamemnon "
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Brian Herbert |
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My Sihaya,' he said as he held her, 'I have loved you for five thousand years.
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herbert
dune
paul
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Brian Herbert |
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How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
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remembering
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Brian Herbert |
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Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.
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Brian Herbert Kevin Anderson |
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Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.
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Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
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Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
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Brian Herbert |
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The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
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Brian Herbert |
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Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.
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Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
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Brian Herbert |
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Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.
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Brian Herbert |
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Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
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teaching
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Brian Herbert |
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Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power . . . all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" But we do anyway. We break that commandment as a matter of course. The work..
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Brian Herbert |
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Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
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Brian Herbert |
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Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
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Brian Herbert |
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Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
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Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson |
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No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.
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soul
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Brian Herbert |
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When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
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Brian Herbert |
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It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
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sin
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Brian Herbert |
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Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
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pressure
stress
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Brian Herbert |
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Seeker, who says religion is the way to God?
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Brian Herbert |
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We are trained to believe and not to know.
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Brian Herbert |
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We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.
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Brian Herbert |
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The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.
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Brian Herbert |
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The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
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Brian Herbert |
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If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
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Brian Herbert |
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There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.
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Brian Herbert |
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It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.
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Brian Herbert |
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Even victories take their toll on a man.
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Brian Herbert |
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Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
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Brian Herbert |
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Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
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Brian Herbert |
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No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
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Brian Herbert |
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We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.
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universe
religion
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Brian Herbert |
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Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.
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Brian Herbert |
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I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"--Gilbertus Albans, " --
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Brian Herbert |
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In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
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stress
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Brian Herbert |
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Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
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Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson |
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The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives
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Brian Herbert Kevin Anderson |
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Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.
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Brian Herbert |
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She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind.
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Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
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As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?..." p330"
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Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson |
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The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.
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Brian Herbert |