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Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.
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Frank Herbert |
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956b9a4
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At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily..
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religion
science-fiction
prophecy
mythology
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Frank Herbert |
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.
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politics
governance
scapegoat
vote
democracy
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Frank Herbert |
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67a44bb
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Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
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Frank Herbert |
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cf162d8
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Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica"
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Frank Herbert |
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81279bd
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That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.
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Frank Herbert |
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Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity." Odrade explaining. "The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a saf..
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Frank Herbert |
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dee2097
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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. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
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Frank Herbert |
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Taraza cleared her throat. "No need. Lucilla is one of our finest Imprinters. Each of you, of course, received the identical liberal conditioning to prepare you for this." There was something almost insulting in Taraza's casual tone and only the habits of long association put down Odrade's immediate resentment. It was partly that word "liberal," she realized. Atreides ancestors rose up in rebellion at the word. It was as though her accumula..
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Frank Herbert |
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The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!"we say. Then Changer comes"
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Frank Herbert |
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Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.
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Frank Herbert |
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the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
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Frank Herbert |
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7b2f2d9
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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Frank Herbert |
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0f06756
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The natural human's an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.
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Frank Herbert |
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62c8e24
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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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c8222e5
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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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5d81601
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He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes. And the race knew only one sure way for this--the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad. Surely,
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Frank Herbert |
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ccbc773
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My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something
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Frank Herbert |
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When I am weaker than 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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a39473e
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Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.
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Frank Herbert |
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8bcc2a4
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The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
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Frank Herbert |
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7763892
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They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. --
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Frank Herbert |
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eba7b69
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peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.
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Frank Herbert |
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8d6b1d8
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Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.
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Frank Herbert |
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124e54e
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We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.
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Frank Herbert |
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e4c4ab1
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They compose poems to their knives.
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fremen
science-fiction
sci-fi
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Frank Herbert |
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b13c0f0
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we can say that Muad'Dib 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. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. --
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Frank Herbert |
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8a339f9
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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.
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Frank Herbert |
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Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
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war
consent
population
government
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Frank Herbert |
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bb47cf9
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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on y..
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Frank Herbert |
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Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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Frank Herbert |
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506d108
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Pride overcame Paul's fear. "You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal?" he demanded. "Let us say I suggest you may be human," she said. "Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me."
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Frank Herbert |
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576bbe8
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
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Frank Herbert |
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b81f525
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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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hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison."
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Frank Herbert |
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In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
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Frank Herbert |
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What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground--and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.
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Frank Herbert |
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When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.
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Frank Herbert |
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pale northern complexion that turned to burn at the drop of a sunbeam.
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Frank Herbert |
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Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
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relationship
love
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Frank Herbert |
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7de425e
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She rides the sandworm of space! She guides through all storms Into the land of gentle winds. Though we sleep by the snake's den, She guards our dreaming sould. Shunning the desert heat, She hides us in a cool hollow. The gleaming of her white teeth Guides us in the night. By the braids of her hair We are lifted to heaven! Sweet fragrance, flower-scented, Surrounds us in her presence.
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hymn
trance
holy
desert
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Frank Herbert |
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be74230
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wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
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Frank Herbert |
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b10e84d
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still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.
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Frank Herbert |
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3ecba0c
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It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This ... rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil."
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Frank Herbert |