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Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
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Frank Herbert |
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It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained."
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Frank Herbert |
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Bir geceyi uyanik gecirmek, omre bir gun eklemektir.
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Frank Herbert |
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The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It..
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Frank Herbert |
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Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
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Frank Herbert |
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A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
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word-choice
rhetoric
vocabulary
persuasion
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Frank Herbert |
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He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.
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Frank Herbert |
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Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft."
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Frank Herbert |
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Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural orga..
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religion
law
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Frank Herbert |
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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leadership
hesitation
distraction
procrastination
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Frank Herbert |
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong--faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul"
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Frank Herbert |
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Color streamed into a toe of darkness testing the sand.
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Frank Herbert |
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Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.
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Frank Herbert |
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Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
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Frank Herbert |
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158f1f1
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Beginnings are such delicate times.
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wisdom
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Frank Herbert |
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Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It
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Frank Herbert |
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The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple."
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religion
nothing
practical
simple
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Frank Herbert |
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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace--those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comf..
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Frank Herbert |
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People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.
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Frank Herbert |
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Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura."
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bravura
leader
cultivate
loyalty
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Frank Herbert |
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062b048
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When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
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Frank Herbert |
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Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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Frank Herbert |
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Growing older is to grow more wicked.
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Frank Herbert |
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Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
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love
necessity
mood
fight
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Frank Herbert |
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35d39d6
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How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.
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Frank Herbert |
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One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She's not the betrayer, Gurney."
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Frank Herbert |
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Bir zamanlar, insanlar dusunme isini makinelere devretmis, boylece ozgurlesmeyi umut etmislerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baska insanlarin onlari kolelestirmesine yol acti sadece.
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Frank Herbert |
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. --The Coda
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Frank Herbert |
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Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
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doubt
greater
heresy
cynicism
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Frank Herbert |
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Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response--never to forgive and never to forget.
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Frank Herbert |
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There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Frank Herbert |
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I knew Frank Herbert for more than thirty-eight years. He was a magnificent human being, a man of great honor and distinction, and the most interesting person at any gathering, drawing listeners around him like a magnet. To say he was an intellectual giant would be an understatement, since he seemed to contain all of the knowledge of the universe in his marvelous mind. He was my father, and I loved him deeply.
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Frank Herbert |
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Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.
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Frank Herbert |
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For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say." "The thing was written with salt," Irulan translated."
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Frank Herbert |
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My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
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mortality
leadership
heritage
legacy
parenthood
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Frank Herbert |
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. --FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN"
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Frank Herbert |
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How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?
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propaganda
media
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Frank Herbert |
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562b703
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What's a gom jabbar?
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Frank Herbert |
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ea2e789
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The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
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tactics
knife
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Frank Herbert |
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We shouldn't have tried to create new symbols," he said. We should've realized we weren't supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren't supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a war..
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religion
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Frank Herbert |
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Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.
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Frank Herbert |
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Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.
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Frank Herbert |
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What do you despise? By this are you truly known. --
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Frank Herbert |
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Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.
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Frank Herbert |