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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
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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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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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
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Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
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They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
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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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To determine if you're human. Be silent.
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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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