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67e5966
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Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance
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Frank Herbert |
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db215bc
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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science
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Frank Herbert |
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33fae18
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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
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Frank Herbert |
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Jessica stopped beside him: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'When do we lose it?' He murmured... 'We do indeed lose something,' she said.
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Frank Herbert |
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87297bd
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Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.
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Frank Herbert |
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There was a man so wise, He jumped into A sandy place And burnt out both his eyes! And when he knew his eyes were gone, He offered no complaint. He summoned up a vision And made himself a saint. -Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib
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frank-herbert
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Frank Herbert |
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4a79d05
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Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.
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identity
self
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Frank Herbert |
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9ad70c4
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The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
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Frank Herbert |
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eae409e
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We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy--or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
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Frank Herbert |
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0885e37
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Desperate people are the most dangerous.
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people
most
desperate
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Frank Herbert |
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ea7deed
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If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
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Frank Herbert |
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fec216d
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Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
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chaos
surprise
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Frank Herbert |
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cd392ad
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Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
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Frank Herbert |
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6a4ef7e
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Hard tasks need hard ways.
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ways
tasks
need
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Frank Herbert |
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df3190e
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If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.
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Frank Herbert |
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5406775
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Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
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teg
mentat
miles
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Frank Herbert |
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2638669
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I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
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profound
science-fiction
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Frank Herbert |
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c85ddcc
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My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sands...
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Frank Herbert |
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5b557fb
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Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
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Frank Herbert |
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304bbd7
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There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...
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Frank Herbert |
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820e57b
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What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
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faith
insomnia
maturation
worry
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Frank Herbert |
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0294d1d
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I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.
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Frank Herbert |
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452a3ed
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you've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
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Frank Herbert |
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f90a6db
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Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
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fremen-saying
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Frank Herbert |
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f4553e5
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Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.
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Frank Herbert |
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683d8db
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Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions. Years after the publication of Dune, Richard M. Nixon provided ample proof. Dad said that Nixon did the American people an immense favor in his attempt to cover up the Watergate misdeeds. By amplified example, albeit unwittingly, the thirty-seventh president of the United States taught people to question their..
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Frank Herbert |
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We came from Caladan--a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind--we could see the actuality all around us. And 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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Frank Herbert |
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cd5b13b
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There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening--first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could h..
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Frank Herbert |
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fbcd5ac
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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Maud'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan an..
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Frank Herbert |
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You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death."
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death
life
survivor
preservation
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Frank Herbert |
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4ba682d
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Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated.
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Frank Herbert |
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f0ff437
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Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
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Frank Herbert |
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453b4bc
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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.
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Frank Herbert |
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The past is no farther away than your pillow.
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Frank Herbert |
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She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men."
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Frank Herbert |
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Are you already training my replacement? Piter demanded. "Replace you? Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?" "The same place you found me, Baron." "Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused. "You do seem a bit unstable lately. And the spice you eat!" "Are my pleasures too expensive, Baron? Do you object to them?" "My dear Piter, your pleasures are what tie you to me. How could I object to that?"
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harkonnen
piter-de-vries
dune
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Frank Herbert |
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1d2fb9c
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In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.
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Frank Herbert |
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af96e55
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
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religion
pope
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Frank Herbert |
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46c7745
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Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
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Frank Herbert |
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5ed975c
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I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.
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technology
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Frank Herbert |
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632170c
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I am not the river I am the net.
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Frank Herbert |
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6fd16bc
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There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.
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Frank Herbert |
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03f2081
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What is the son but an extension of the father?
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Frank Herbert |
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e6a273b
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I observed you in pain, lad. Pain's merely the axis of the test. Your mother's told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.
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Frank Herbert |