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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
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Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
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Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
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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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Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
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Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.
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Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
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Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.
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Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
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To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
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Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
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Education is no substitute for intelligence.
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
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