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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Frank Patrick Herbert
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Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
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Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
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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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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
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the sleeper must awaken.
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Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: Look at me! Look at me!
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I am not the kind of person I want to be.
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: Now it's complete because it's ended here.
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