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bc1b859
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Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
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Frank Herbert |
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Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
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Frank Herbert |
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What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot ..
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chapter-heading
intelligent
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Frank Herbert |
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3b5906c
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Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to ward off attacks. You see the absolute rule of the autocrat. All new things become dangerous frontier districts--new planets, new economic areas to exploit, new ideas or new devices, visitors--everything suspect. Feudalism takes firm hold, sometimes disguised as a politbureau or similar structure, b..
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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
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Frank Herbert |
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The pursuit of unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans.
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Frank Herbert |
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ecde1e9
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She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
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randomness
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Frank Herbert |
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a853662
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I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
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religion
priest
cowardice
mediocrity
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Frank Herbert |
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45d3995
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A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.
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Frank Herbert |
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All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact--yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
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truth
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Frank Herbert |
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My family sat in their pool courtyard," Harah said, "in air bathed by the moisture that arose from the spray of a fountain. There was a tree of portyguls, round and deep in color, near at hand. There was a basket with mish mish and baklawa and mugs of liban--all manner of good things to eat. In our gardens and, in our flocks, there was peace . . . peace in all the land." "Life was full with happiness until the raiders came," Alia said. ..
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Frank Herbert |
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The wise man molds himself--the fool lives only to die.
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Frank Herbert |
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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
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understanding
problem
leadership
reality
life
flow
team
languages
experience
mystery
persuasion
process
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Frank Herbert |
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Each man is a little war.
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Frank Herbert |
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I didn't want to be different. I wanted to be able to laugh But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved . . . and to love.
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Frank Herbert |
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord."
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religion
scytale
emperor
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Frank Herbert |
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d8ebed7
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There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.
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true
tool
fatal
limit
law
force
government
consequences
vengeance
sin
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Frank Herbert |
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d813ebf
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Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
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Frank Herbert |
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06c7cd9
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Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled."
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love
pillar
fremen
open
smoke
fire
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Frank Herbert |
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cfa392e
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What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
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seen
eyes
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Frank Herbert |
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7a70906
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Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!
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Frank Herbert |
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f7744b6
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Frank Herbert |
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3c83328
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All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
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Frank Herbert |
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b1b1db7
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Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
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Frank Herbert |
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Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.
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Frank Herbert |
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b41fe2c
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you can't buy security
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Frank Herbert |
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fcafef9
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How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!
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Frank Herbert |
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64fc296
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Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
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dune
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frank herbert |
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f25e95c
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If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.
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mind
emotion
feeling
thought
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Frank Herbert |
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1705b2a
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In the wrong hands," Leto said, "monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument." - "And your hands are the right ones?"
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Frank Herbert |
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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... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become ext..
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mind
mindfulness
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Frank Herbert |
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354e0e0
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Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.
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Frank Herbert |
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I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."
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wisdom
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Frank Herbert |
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More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.
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Frank Herbert |
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We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!
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Frank Herbert |
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628cc85
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The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said."
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Frank Herbert |
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84d0daf
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I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor."
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Frank Herbert |
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3b1854c
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Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.
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Frank Herbert |
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62394ee
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But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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books
learning
education
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Frank Herbert |
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ee15abd
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No conoceras el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequena muerte que conduce a la destruccion total. Afrontare mi miedo. Permitire que pase sobre mi y a traves de mi. Y cuando haya pasado girare mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Alla donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habra nada. Solo estare yo.
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Frank Herbert |
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fde1a46
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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word-of-god
heritage
legacy
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Frank Herbert |
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d12f7fc
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They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
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Frank Herbert |
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f5dd8f8
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This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.
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Frank Herbert |
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One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles' heel of armies, police and bureaucracies.
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bureaucracies
bureaucracy
elite
hierarchy
power
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Frank Herbert |