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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
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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Governs
Entropy
Governors
Thrive

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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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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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People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
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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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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
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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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This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
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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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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
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What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
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Silence is often the best thing to say.
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Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
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