Tag: frank herbert
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Quote – The Universe Is a Coherent Whole
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in QuotesChurch and State, scientific reason and faith, the individual and his community, even progress and tradition–all of these can be reconciled in the teachings of Muad’Dib. He taught us that there exist no intransigent opposites except in the beliefs of… Read More
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Quote – Limits of Survival Are Set by Climate
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in QuotesLimits 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 – 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
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Quote – The Universe is God’s
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in QuotesThe Universe is God’s. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness. Commentaries… Read More
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Quote – The Violence We Intend Toward Each Other
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in Quotes“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only… Read More