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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eaa5d23 | You must be always hungry and thirsty." The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. "Like me." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0995be8 | A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And 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 recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. "Three: When the populace perceives a hop.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4a5d5a9 | All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. | Frank Herbert | ||
| bf75814 | You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you. | force negotiation | Frank Herbert | |
| 8639558 | Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8bf72a4 | I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9075815 | Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9bc6e54 | Vsiako Biuro e zhiv organiz'm, a biurokrat't e edna ot negovite kletki. Tazi analogiia ni pomaga da razberem koi sa po-vazhnite kletki, koi sa nai-zastrasheni, koi nai-lesno zamenimi i kolko e lesno da b'desh posredstven. K'sni Pisaniia na Bilduun IV | Frank Herbert | ||
| 94b1e7f | Nikoga ne podtseniavaite silata na samozabluzhdenieto da filtrira tova, koeto ochite vizhdat i ushite chuvat. Sluchaiat Abnet, Sekretni dosieta na BiuSab | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4ac7f09 | Faktite vinagi sa takiva kakvito iskash da b'dat. Na tova ni uchi otnositelnostta. Nar'chnik na BiuSab | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1a1b5e7 | Kakvo ima mezhdu edno i osem, osven dve, tri, chetiri, pet, shest i sedem? -- Bezkrainost -- otv'rna Keilban't. -- Otvorena sistema. Nishcho s'd'rzha vsichko. Vsichko s'd'rzha nishcho. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 342d6fa | Bilo koja staza koja suzava mogucnosti u buducnosti moze postati smrtonosna klopka. Ljudi ne krce sebi put kroz labirint; oni pretrazuju sirok horizont ispunjen jedinstvenim pojavama. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3d40482 | Ezik't na tialoto i tants't na khormonite sa p'rvichni formi na obshchuvane. ,,Kulturnata izostanalost", nepublikuvan trud ot Iori Kh. Makkai" | Frank Herbert | ||
| b33dd0b | Zashchoto toi kontsentrira v sebe si tsialata prokleta vselena. Toi... toi s'zdade spetsializiranite planeti -- planetite na medenite mesetsi, ginekologichnite planeti, pediatrichnite planeti, planetite za zimni sportove, geriatrichnite planeti, planetite za pluvni sportove, planetite -- biblioteki, i kakvi li oshche ne. Dori BiuSab ima svoia sobstvena planeta. Nikoi veche ne mozhe da si v'rshi rabotata bez pomoshchta na S-efekta. Ot posled.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fbd4874 | Ako viarvash, che naistina si gladen, mozhesh da iziadesh i sobstvenite si misli. Pogovorka na Palenkite | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5825f7e | Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobicnija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Nasim buducnostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 82f9c32 | Cuvaj se staza koje suzavaju buduce mogucnosti. Takve staze odmicu od beskonacnosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a06d168 | Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba traziti znanje. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6e00336 | Kad se pretjerano koristi, cak se i odanost na kraju istrosi. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8990f2f | Kad sam se skolovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo tesko, Alija, nauciti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo naucis dopustati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo cudno. Ti mozes rabiti svoje misice, vjezbati ih, ojacavati, ali um radi sam od sebe. Ponekad, nakon sto vec naucis to o umu, on ti pokazuje stvari koje ne zelis vidjeti. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b5d65d4 | Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve sto im se nade na putu. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1061b2b | Neki dogadaji imaju kraj, ali nemaju pocetak; drugi zapocinju, ali ne zavrse. Sve to ovisi o tocki na kojoj promatrac stoji. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a6db939 | Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? | Frank Herbert | ||
| bb62971 | To exist is to stand out, away from the background, | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1827b09 | Holiness has replaced love in your religion! | Frank Herbert | ||
| abccdd8 | THE DUKE Leto Atreides leaned against a parapet of the landing control tower outside Arrakeen. The night's first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon. Beneath it, the jagged cliffs of the Shield Wall shone like parched icing through a dust haze. To his left, the lights of Arrakeen glowed in the haze--yellow . . . white . . . blue. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c5a3c32 | Gurney's a romantic," the Duke growled. This talk of killing suddenly disturbed him, coming from his son. "I'd sooner you never had to kill...but if the need arises, you do it however you can--tip or edge." He looked up at the skylight, on which the rain was drumming." | Frank Herbert | ||
| e1ae11e | The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3a3ec23 | It is another kind of marriage--the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c823c99 | They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7b8ecf3 | And he thought then about the Guild--the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never dared grasp the sword...and now they could not grasp it. They might have taken Arrakis when they realized the error of specializing on the melange awareness-spectrum narcotic for their navigators. They could have done this, lived their glorious day and died.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 944b039 | Postoje stvari koje rijeci ne mogu objasniti. Moras ih dozivjeti bez rijeci. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 41f3f20 | Oholi podizu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokusavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 2ff6c3e | Previse znanja nikad ne dopusta jednostavne odluke. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9528e67 | In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science. | science unstable | Frank Herbert | |
| 538a8a2 | The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's" | Frank Herbert | ||
| f91485f | He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7828f6a | A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e638a3f | Earth? Golden Age?" Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 28008d3 | Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy. | Frank Herbert | ||
| bfce144 | Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. | judgment | Frank Herbert | |
| 2066675 | Korzybski argued that language must be viewed as a map, which is useful only insofar as it is similar to the world it describes. He stressed the importance of questioning the unconscious assumptions built into our language, and urged a response to life on the basis of fresh, "first order" experience rather than the old experiences that have been crystallized in words and concepts." | Timothy O'Reilly | ||
| e6042d0 | Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2d8d558 | Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions. | Neal Stephenson |