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Quotations by author » Frank Herbert
American science fiction Author and Writer 1920-1986
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It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
Learning
Journalism is the entertainment business.
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
JusticeRevenge
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Kindness
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always comes interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
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Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you
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Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Religion
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Discipline
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
DiscoveryKnowledge
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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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Distrust
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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The Road to Dune
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Conflict
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria
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There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover
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