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Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
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We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
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What is the son but an extension of the father?
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.
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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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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
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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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We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
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A voice hissed: He sheds tears! It was taken around the ring Usal gives moisture to the dead! He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.
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Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
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Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
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We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
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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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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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