Quote – Limits of Survival Are Set by Climate
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Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual… Read More
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Quote – Tend to the Wolf Within Your Fences
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in QuotesThe one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. The Azhar Book; Shamra… Read More
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Quote – You Seldom Find Real Loyalties in Commerce
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in QuotesWhat you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false… Read More
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Quote – Politics as Repeat Phenomenon
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in QuotesGovernments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling… Read More
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Quote – On The Realities of This Universe
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in QuotesThe universe is just there; that’s the only way a Fedaykin can view it and remain the master of his senses. The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, the eruption… Read More
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Quote – On Choosing Leaders
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in QuotesGood government never depends on laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the… Read More
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Quote – To Suspect Your Own Mortality
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in Quotes“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.” Bene Gesserit saying on awareness of mortality Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
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Quote – On Threats to Minority Rule
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in Quotes“A large population held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers– “One: When they find a… Read More
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Quote – To Exist Is To Stand Out
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in Quotes“To exist is to stand out, away from the background. You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” The Preacher, to Alia Frank Herbert, Children of Dune Read More
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Quote – Atrocity Has No Excuses
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in QuotesAtrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more… Read More