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God Emperor of Dune (1981)
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You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
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In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.
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It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
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Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
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If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
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Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
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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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If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
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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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You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
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Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
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History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
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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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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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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
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I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
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The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
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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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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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If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
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There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.
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Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
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The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
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The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Frank Herbert
Born:
October 8, 1920
Died:
February 11, 1986
(aged 65)
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