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Without coming fully awake, Rhin felt his presence beside her, experienced a primitive demand for his protective masculinity. She nestled against him, murmured, "its so hot. Doesn't it ever cool off?"
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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
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That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
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I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
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All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
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When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
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One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
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The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas.
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Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
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The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
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When I was quite young... I began to suspect there must be flaws in my sense of reality. It seemed to my dim sense of confusion that things often blended one into another, and the Law of Excluded Middle merely opened up a void wherein anything was possible. But I had been produced to focus on objects (things) and not on systems (processes).
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
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There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
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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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Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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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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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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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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