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767b54b
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If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
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senses
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Frank Herbert |
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246403f
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Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
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passion
risk
mediocrity
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Frank Herbert |
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8aa8918
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For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
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Frank Herbert |
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21b49ef
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Emotions are the curse of logic.
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Frank Herbert |
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3804c87
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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Frank Herbert |
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7e11d27
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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
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Frank Herbert |
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34b3800
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Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
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injustice
criminals
police
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Frank Herbert |
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0c3a250
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If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
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Frank Herbert |
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922790b
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When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
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Frank Herbert |
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22050af
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You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
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Frank Herbert |
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efb526d
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It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
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Frank Herbert |
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868f5bc
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When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
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Frank Herbert |
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b06064a
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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Frank Herbert |
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773af6e
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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
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Frank Herbert |
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4e1cf18
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A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
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fremen-saying
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Frank Herbert |
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0ff6cd6
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The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
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survivalism
softness
luxury
weakness
paradise
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Frank Herbert |
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d6a1d3b
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I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
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Frank Herbert |
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859b4d1
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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
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survival
logic
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Frank Herbert |
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19738f6
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Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. A..
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Frank Herbert |
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8fcd3da
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I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.
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Frank Herbert |
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ae296c8
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We have eternity, beloved." "You may have eternity. I have only now." "But this is eternity."
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present-moment
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Frank Herbert |
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512504b
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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
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uncertainty
technology
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Frank Herbert |
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592946e
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If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
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Frank Herbert |
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d34ab2e
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The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib"
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Frank Herbert |
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38fd0b7
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When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
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Frank Herbert |
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252aefb
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
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politics
religion
magnetism
science-fiction
government
mythology
power
ideology
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Frank Herbert |
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59fb2ce
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Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
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Frank Herbert |
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91152c1
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Humans are almost always lonely.
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loneliness
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Frank Herbert |
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67feb8d
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I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
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Frank Herbert |
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b5102bc
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Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate
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resource-economics
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Frank Herbert |
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4a2cc26
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His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
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Frank Herbert |
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df0523c
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Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
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Frank Herbert |
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6515985
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What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
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Frank Herbert |
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505e7cf
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Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
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wisdom
uncertainty
knowledge
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Frank Herbert |
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e395392
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One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
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Frank Herbert |
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a1f2935
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In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Tempor..
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Frank Herbert |
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3b67985
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The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.
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test
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Frank Herbert |
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0d4934a
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There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed...These things are so ancient within us...that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies...It's as easy ..
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Frank Herbert |
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4efda80
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I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.
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love
sihaya
dune
storm
paul
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Frank Herbert |
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99d8709
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The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices. [...] They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems. [...] "A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record..
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Frank Herbert |
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2e749de
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Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some . Always do it for an overriding purpose--and !
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Frank Herbert |
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f9e5bc2
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To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.
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mortality
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Frank Herbert |
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20d33de
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A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
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popularity
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Frank Herbert |
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3cc45c3
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Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.
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Frank Herbert |