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Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.
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Frank Herbert |
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To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
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Frank Herbert |
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One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.
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Frank Herbert |
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I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea...and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
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Frank Herbert |
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For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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Frank Herbert |
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Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the v..
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My mind controls my reality.
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Frank Herbert |
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You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
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thought-life
ministry
discipleship
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My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it."
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power
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In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.
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government
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Frank Herbert |
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The mind can go either direction under stress--toward positive or toward negative:
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Frank Herbert |
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To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
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Frank Herbert |
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We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
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Frank Herbert |
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It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
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Frank Herbert |
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Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny."
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Frank Herbert |
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Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance--easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.
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Frank Herbert |
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How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
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Frank Herbert |
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The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier ... including one's own ignorance.
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Frank Herbert |
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That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand." Before"
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Frank Herbert |
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The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture--it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
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Frank Herbert |
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The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. --
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Frank Herbert |
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You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.
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Frank Herbert |
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I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it."
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Frank Herbert |
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You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.
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Frank Herbert |
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Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her"
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Frank Herbert |
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You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. --
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Frank Herbert |
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How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.
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Frank Herbert |
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Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed. "There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover," Paul said."
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statecraft
tool
limits
deceit
power
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Frank Herbert |
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Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest."
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Frank Herbert |
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governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.
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Frank Herbert |
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Once more the drama begins.' -- The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.
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Frank Herbert |
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Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? --
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Frank Herbert |
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Time could be made to serve the mind.
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Frank Herbert |
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One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
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moment
incompetence
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Frank Herbert |
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There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,' Kynes said. 'You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. It's aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in grea..
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Time can also be a place, Moneo," Leto said. "Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself." --
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Frank Herbert |
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Vecina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalazenje slobode u sebi.
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Frank Herbert |
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Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within." Sister"
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Frank Herbert |
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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.
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myth
politics
fantasy
drives
urges
projection
power
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Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control--all gone, back into the water and the sand.
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There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it."
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Frank Herbert |
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Paul sensed his own tensions, decided to practice one of the mind-body lessons his mother had taught him. Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness ... focusing the consciousness ... aortal dilation ... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness ... to be conscious by choice ... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions ... one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone ...
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Frank Herbert |
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Madness in method, that is genius.
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Frank Herbert |
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The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We
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