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There's a lesson in every temptation.

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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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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The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
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The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
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Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!
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Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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Law is the ultimate science.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
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If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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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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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
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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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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
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