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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
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There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
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Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
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Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
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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.
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We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
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Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
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Is it possible this triviality is a code of some sort? the Brain wondered. But how could it be... unless there's more to these emotional inconsequentials and this talk of a God than appears on the surface?
The Brain had begun its career in logics as a pragmatic atheist. Now doubts began to creep into its computations, and it classified doubt as an emotion.
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If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko
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We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
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It wasn't the kind of answer he'd expected — too subtly penetrating and leaving too much uncommitted. He reminded himself that it was difficult to control uncommitted people. Once a man had invested his energies, he could be twisted and turned at will... but if the man held back, conserved those energies...
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Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
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We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
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The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M. Kennedy goes as follows — no deeds of passion allowed, no geniuses, no criminals, no imaginative creators of the new. Satisfaction may be gained only in carefully limited social interactions, in living off the great works of the past. There must be limits to any excitement. Drug yourself into a placid "norm." Moderation is the key word…
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I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.
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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
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The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Frank Herbert
Born:
October 8, 1920
Died:
February 11, 1986
(aged 65)
Bio:
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.
Known for:
Dune Messiah (1969)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Children of Dune (1976)
Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
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