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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
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
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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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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Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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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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People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
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What you cannot control, you must accept.
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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny, Paul said. They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
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Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
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I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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