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Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Frank Herbert
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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
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Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
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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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