Category: Quotes
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Quote – The Relatively Simple Actions of Single Individuals
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in QuotesNo matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends… Read More
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Quote – The Universe Grants What it Will
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in Quotes“You do not take from this universe. It grants what it will.” Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
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Quote – Truth Suffers From Too Much Analysis
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in QuotesTruth suffers from too much analysis. Ancient Fremen saying Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
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Quote – A Thought is a Real Thing
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in QuotesWhether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. From the O.C. Bible Frank Herbert, Dune
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Quote – A Walking Song Lovers Share
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in Quotes“Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell… Read More
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Quote – The Mind Resists Itself
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in QuotesThe mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. St. Augustine, as paraphrased by Lady Jessica Frank Herbert, Dune
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Quote – Fear is the Mind-Killer
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in QuotesI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will… Read More
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Quote – The Foundation Series – 3
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in Quotes“[…] about twenty-four hundred years ago, there arose a group of people on Helicon who were quite convinced that Helicon was the only inhabited globe in the Universe. Helicon was the Universe and beyond it there was only a solid… Read More
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Quote – The Foundation Series – 2
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in QuotesSeldon shook his head. “It strikes me that no one could possibly want to be Emperor.” “No sane person would, I agree, but the ‘Imperial wish,’ as it is frequently called, is like a disease that, when caught, drives out… Read More
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Quote – The Foundation Series – 1
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in Quotes“The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes are encouraged to wage a… Read More