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eea9ef5	Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza		Frank Herbert
e73c8c5	It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.		Frank Herbert
de8b71a	Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.		Frank Herbert
a91fb25	I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.	coffee tactics	Frank Herbert
203443b	The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.		Frank Herbert
c4b88e7	And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.		Frank Herbert
7660e5d	Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.		Frank Herbert
6a74ec1	There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: 'I am the Kwisatz Ha..		Frank Herbert
2735b71	You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.		Frank Herbert
2731042	Where is Alia?' she asked. 'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded...		Frank Herbert
0c684d8	What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."	thought-life self-discipline	Frank Herbert
da7485d	Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.		Frank Herbert
331df12	To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.		Frank Herbert
c307ded	Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.		Frank Herbert
21c1156	I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!	reality religion selfhood	Frank Herbert
6cd07d2	Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.		Frank Herbert
b6fff35	Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship," Leto said. "They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!"		Frank Herbert
089851b	When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.		Frank Herbert
05f2a3c	The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. --		Frank Herbert
c7d4820	We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.	strength	Frank Herbert
6eb2cfb	Fortune passes everywhere.	fortune	Frank Herbert
bd730a0	These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness	virtue history good morality goodness faith religion religious belief-systems dune-arrakis dune-house-atreides evil-men falsehoods justice-of-god dune-messiah dune moral-law religion-philosophy falsehood historical-perspective history-of-thought history-of-mankind belief-system religion-spirituality religious-faith historical beliefs religions moral virtues morals evil	Frank Herbert
a1aae8c	There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?		Frank Herbert
9baa857	You cannot fix your gaze upon it! Senses cannot record it. No words describe it." -Alia"		Frank Herbert
f5020ad	On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."	caladan scrabble desert inheritance sea power	Frank Herbert
01adf6e	You can't build politics on love," he said. "People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos."		Frank Herbert
56b575a	The terrain enforced its own rhythms.		Frank Herbert
554d7e6	The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!		Frank Herbert
32948ba	To accept a little death is worse than death itself.	mortality depression fatalism	Frank Herbert
245ab2f	We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done."	must run done paul	Frank Herbert
8cc656c	I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me		Frank Herbert
2d56167	El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.	existence reality life existencial dune science-fiction realidad vida	Frank Herbert
3cd904f	Life produces a different taste each time you take it.	flexibility glory-of-god openness humility	Frank Herbert
f9655d8	One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt,		Frank Herbert
b267f01	One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear - sharp and ready.	statecraft ready sharp power	Frank Herbert
1a02e35	Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.		Frank Herbert
9010336	To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.		Frank Herbert
99b3231	The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.		Frank Herbert
0d611cb	When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.	openness perspective manners	Frank Herbert
be8d852	Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251		Frank Herbert
5d2c756	I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.	science-fiction	Frank Herbert
48d8e2e	A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.		Frank Herbert
0d7bbc2	Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it." -Baron Vladimir"	harkonnen piter-de-vries dune	Frank Herbert
1c23bf3	Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises--no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting." --		Frank Herbert

eea9ef5

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza

Frank Herbert

e73c8c5

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Frank Herbert

de8b71a

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

a91fb25

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

coffee tactics

Frank Herbert

203443b

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

Frank Herbert

c4b88e7

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

Frank Herbert

7660e5d

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Frank Herbert

6a74ec1

There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: 'I am the Kwisatz Ha..

Frank Herbert

2735b71

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Frank Herbert

2731042

Where is Alia?' she asked. 'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded...

Frank Herbert

0c684d8

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."

thought-life self-discipline

Frank Herbert

da7485d

Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.

Frank Herbert

331df12

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Frank Herbert

c307ded

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

Frank Herbert

21c1156

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

reality religion selfhood

Frank Herbert

6cd07d2

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.

Frank Herbert

b6fff35

Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship," Leto said. "They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!"

Frank Herbert

089851b

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

Frank Herbert

05f2a3c

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. --

Frank Herbert

c7d4820

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

strength

Frank Herbert

6eb2cfb

Fortune passes everywhere.

fortune

Frank Herbert

bd730a0

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

virtue history good morality goodness faith religion religious belief-systems dune-arrakis dune-house-atreides evil-men falsehoods justice-of-god dune-messiah dune moral-law religion-philosophy falsehood historical-perspective history-of-thought history-of-mankind belief-system religion-spirituality religious-faith historical beliefs religions moral virtues morals evil

Frank Herbert

a1aae8c

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

Frank Herbert

9baa857

You cannot fix your gaze upon it! Senses cannot record it. No words describe it." -Alia"

Frank Herbert

f5020ad

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."

caladan scrabble desert inheritance sea power

Frank Herbert

01adf6e

You can't build politics on love," he said. "People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos."

Frank Herbert

56b575a

The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

Frank Herbert

554d7e6

The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!

Frank Herbert

32948ba

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

mortality depression fatalism

Frank Herbert

245ab2f

We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done."

must run done paul

Frank Herbert

8cc656c

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Frank Herbert

2d56167

El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

existence reality life existencial dune science-fiction realidad vida

Frank Herbert

3cd904f

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

flexibility glory-of-god openness humility

Frank Herbert

f9655d8

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt,

Frank Herbert

b267f01

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear - sharp and ready.

statecraft ready sharp power

Frank Herbert

1a02e35

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Frank Herbert

9010336

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

Frank Herbert

99b3231

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

Frank Herbert

0d611cb

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

openness perspective manners

Frank Herbert

be8d852

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

Frank Herbert

5d2c756

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

science-fiction

Frank Herbert

48d8e2e

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

Frank Herbert

0d7bbc2

Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it." -Baron Vladimir"

harkonnen piter-de-vries dune

Frank Herbert

1c23bf3

Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises--no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting." --

Frank Herbert