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I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.
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Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
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Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.
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Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
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I cry for those not yet dead.
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
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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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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
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Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.
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I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
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You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
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People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
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