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Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
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War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
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Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
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Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
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Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
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Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
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Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Frank Herbert
Born:
October 8, 1920
Died:
February 11, 1986
(aged 65)
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