Quote – We Tend To Become Like the Worst in Those We Oppose
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We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose. Bene Gesserit Coda Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
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Quote – Differences of Custom and Traning
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in QuotesWhen strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. The Lady Jessica, from “Wisdom of Arrakis” Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
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Quote – Bureaucracy Destroys Initiative
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in QuotesBureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucracy hates more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? A Guide… Read More
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Quote – A Safe Line of Investigations
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in QuotesQuite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a “safe line of investigations,” which will develop only those products and ideas that can… Read More
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Quote – Liberty and Freedom Are Complex Concepts
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in QuotesLiberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of… Read More
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Quote – Some People Never Observe Anything
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in Quotes“[…] 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.”… Read More
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Quote – Who Has the Clout?
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in QuotesLaw always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #X0X232 Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune Read More
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Quote – Your Beliefs Order the Unfolding of Daily Events
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in QuotesAt the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet… Read More
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Quote – Technology Tends Towards Avoidance of Risks by Investors
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in QuotesTechnology, in common with many other activities, tends towards avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it… Read More
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Quote – Eve was Not the First To Sample the Apple
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in Quotes“[…] Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was the first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve. My story tells you something about how societies find a structural necessity for… Read More