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There is no escape–we pay for the violence of our ancestors.Frank Herbert
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, " Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.Frank Herbert
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.Frank Herbert
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.Frank Herbert
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.Frank Herbert
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Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.Frank Herbert
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.Frank Herbert
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.Frank Herbert
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The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, ” he said.“ Nothing about religion is simple.Frank Herbert
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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.Frank Herbert
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I 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 turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.Frank Herbert
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Fear is the mind-killer.Frank Herbert
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!Frank Herbert
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The man without emotions is the one to fear.Frank Herbert
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You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.Frank Herbert
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Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come, " Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow—we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.Frank Herbert
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Give as few orders as possible, " his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.Frank Herbert
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.Frank Herbert
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I must rule with eye and claw – as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto AtreidesFrank Herbert