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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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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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It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
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To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
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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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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
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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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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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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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If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
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Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
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Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
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To know a thing well, know it's limits Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
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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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Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
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Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
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Men always fear things which move by themselves.
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
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