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The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
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Frank Herbert |
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That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought--the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
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Frank Herbert |
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Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron? -Piter De Vries
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mentat
piter-de-vries
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Frank Herbert |
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One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.
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Frank Herbert |
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Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err. -Baron Vladimir
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harkonnen
piter-de-vries
dune
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Frank Herbert |
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Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.
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Frank Herbert |
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my deal's the only one in town
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Frank Herbert |
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What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.
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Frank Herbert |
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Nie wolno sie bac. Strach zabija dusze. Strach to mala smierc, a wielkie unicestwienie. Stawie mu czolo. Niechaj przejdzie po mnie i przeze mnie.
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Frank Herbert |
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The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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Frank Herbert |
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Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.
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Frank Herbert |
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QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy.
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Frank Herbert |
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He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
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Frank Herbert |
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Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation--the curtains whipped away--she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote.
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Frank Herbert |
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Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!
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Frank Herbert |
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bb1a48c
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The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
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Frank Herbert |
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Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's"
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Frank Herbert |
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he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't the future? Could it be that the oracle the future?
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dune-chronicles
dune-messiah
paul-atreides
prediction
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Frank Herbert |
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Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?
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Frank Herbert |
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And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?"
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Frank Herbert |
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A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
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time
possibilities
prophecy
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Frank Herbert |
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e022d4c
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Frank Herbert |
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Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
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Frank Herbert |
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a1d2c7d
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We will never forgive and we will never forget.
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never
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Frank Herbert |
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Grief is the price of victory,
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Frank Herbert |
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Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit." She"
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Frank Herbert |
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When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
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Frank Herbert |
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A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
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Frank Herbert |
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This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.
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Frank Herbert |
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Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
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Frank Herbert |
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At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
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Frank Herbert |
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Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities.
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Frank Herbert |
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Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.
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Frank Herbert |
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It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.
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Frank Herbert |
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We are the people of Misr," the old woman rasped. "Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die."
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Frank Herbert |
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The universe is full of doors,
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Frank Herbert |
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Paul shrugged. "Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life." Hawat chuckled. "How'd that sit with her?" "I think she go..
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Frank Herbert |
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I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul"
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Frank Herbert |
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She used these moments as she used all such time now to gird herself for the coming necessities. Time pressed; a special calendar drove her. She had looked at a calendar before leaving Chapter House, caught as often happened to her by the persistence of time and its language: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years. . . Standard Years, to be precise. Persistence was an inadequate word for the phenomenon. Inviolability was more l..
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Frank Herbert |
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Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.
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Frank Herbert |
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How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there--a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an..
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Frank Herbert |
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What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent -- he solves.
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Frank Herbert |
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What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can," Edric said."
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Frank Herbert |
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To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence." Stepping"
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Frank Herbert |