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The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Frank Patrick Herbert
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The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.
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The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
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I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
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When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
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Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
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You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
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Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
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We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
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Law is the ultimate science.
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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
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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.
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What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
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We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
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If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
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Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
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