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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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Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
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Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.
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Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
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Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
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What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
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When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
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.. is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
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When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
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Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
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Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
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There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
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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.
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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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