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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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Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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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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Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
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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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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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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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I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.
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If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
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The successful writer listens to himself.
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My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.
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Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.
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What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
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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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the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
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