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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
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Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
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The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
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If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
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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 purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
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What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
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Emotions are the curse of logic.
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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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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
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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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The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
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No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.
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