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The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
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One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
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Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
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What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
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Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
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Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
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There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
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The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
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Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.
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When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
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History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
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Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
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Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
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You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
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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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If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
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I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
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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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Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
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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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When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
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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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