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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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
Franklin Herbert
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Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
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We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
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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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Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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