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Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.
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Frank Herbert |
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But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness."
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pacifism
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Frank Herbert |
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Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. 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 ar..
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Frank Herbert |
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I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
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Frank Herbert |
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Don't sit with your back to any doors.
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Frank Herbert |
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Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
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religion
science-fiction
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Frank Herbert |
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Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. --LAW AND GOVERNANCE THE SPACING GUILD MANUAL W
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Frank Herbert |
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a30a5a0
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He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
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discernment
perspective
prophecy
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Frank Herbert |
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You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
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leadership
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Frank Herbert |
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dd906f8
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You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
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Frank Herbert |
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93a852c
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To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
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Frank Herbert |
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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
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religion
meaning-of-life
science-fiction
existentialism
ethics
prophecy
mythology
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Frank Herbert |
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To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. -- The Amtal Rule
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Frank Herbert |
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What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.
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interpretaions
serenity
law
control
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Frank Herbert |
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Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.
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Frank Herbert |
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It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
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Frank Herbert |
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Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
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Frank Herbert |
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959ec11
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Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
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Frank Herbert |
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92e4b31
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What have we here--jinn or human?
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Frank Herbert |
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I never could bring myself to trust a traitor," the Baron said. "Not even a traitor I created."
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Frank Herbert |
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Are you a believer or just playing safe?
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Frank Herbert |
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863e204
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You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.
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Frank Herbert |
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6307d73
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Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts--voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.
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Frank Herbert |
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95c804d
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Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
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financial-mishap
investing
government
finance
ignorance
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Frank Herbert |
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d7d1dc7
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Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such i..
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freedom
religion
social-science
post-apocalyptic
liberty
science-fiction
theology
mythology
tyranny
power
ideology
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Frank Herbert |
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My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him."
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Frank Herbert |
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Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.
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Frank Herbert |
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A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them.
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Frank Herbert |
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The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.
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Frank Herbert |
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c1e658a
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His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
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Frank Herbert |
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What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
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Frank Herbert |
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Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties...and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.
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Frank Herbert |
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Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento as maquinas, na esperanca de que isso os libertasse. Mas so permitiu que outros homens com maquinas os escravizassem
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Frank Herbert |
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The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement--the real limit of organized society.
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Frank Herbert |
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His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
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Frank Herbert |
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He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
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openness
humility
self-confidence
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Frank Herbert |
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He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
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Frank Herbert |
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The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.
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Frank Herbert |
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You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said."
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Frank Herbert |
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This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else.
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time
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Frank Herbert |
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165448c
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the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
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Frank Herbert |
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e0fc8e4
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The universe is full of doors.
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opportunity
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Frank Herbert |
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45834ec
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There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconsciously. Always ask: 'When I did that, what was I trying to gain?
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Frank Herbert |
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Now, motivational patterns are going to be similar among all espionage agents. That is to say: there will be certain types of motivation that are similar despite differing schools or opposed aims. You will study first how to separate this element for your analysis--in the beginning, through interrogation patterns that betray the inner orientation of the interrogators; secondly, by close observation of language-thought orientation of those u..
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Frank Herbert |