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No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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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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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: Now it's complete because it's ended here.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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If you ask Should we be in space? you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
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Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
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The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
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You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
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