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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
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We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
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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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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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Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
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There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
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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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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
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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.
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Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
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If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
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Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
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Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
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Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
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The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.
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No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.
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The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
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Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
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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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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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