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I am not the river I am the net.Frank Herbert
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.Frank Herbert
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Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert
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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.Frank Herbert
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Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.Frank Herbert
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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.Frank Herbert
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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.Frank Herbert
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Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.Frank Herbert
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.Frank Herbert
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Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.Frank Herbert
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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.Frank Herbert
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Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.Frank Herbert