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It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
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Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
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Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
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The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
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Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.
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Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
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Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
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You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
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The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
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I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
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No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
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There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
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You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
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Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
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To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
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When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.
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If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
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When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
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If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
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In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
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No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
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Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
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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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