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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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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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Emotions are the curse of logic.
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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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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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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To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
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Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
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Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
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The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.
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Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
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Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
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