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Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Frank Herbert

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.

Frank Herbert

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Frank Herbert

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Frank Herbert

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Frank Herbert

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

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.

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