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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
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Hums
Sweetly
Bees
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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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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.
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Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
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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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The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
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No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
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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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You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
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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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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
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The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
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The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
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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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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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A human being can stand any amount of pain.
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You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
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To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
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