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• The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

  Frank Herbert

  Oil, Water, Scarcity

  "Dune Genesis". Essay in "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 72, July 1980.

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• The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

  Frank Herbert

  Differences, Rabbits, Hitting

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• Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

  Frank Herbert

  Running, Risk, Machines

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

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  Law, Justice, Mistress

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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• Is evolution just another name for God?

  Frank Herbert

  Names, Evolution

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.12, Penguin

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• We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

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  Philosophy, Structure, Questioning

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

  Frank Herbert

  Space, Nonsense, Should

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, essay "Man's Future in Space", (1981), 1987.

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• Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

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  Giving, Lamps, Give Me

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Dune Messiah”, Berkley

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• To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

  Frank Herbert

  Tolerance, Limits, Wells

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• Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

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  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.331, Hachette UK

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• We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

  Frank Herbert

  Cutting, Lines, Problem

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

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  Giving Up, Moving, Fall

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.103, Penguin

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• Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Crush, Individuality, Balance

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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• What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Needs, About Yourself

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.99, Penguin

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

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  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

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  Lying, Fall, Pedestal

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.92, Penguin

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• My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

  Frank Herbert

  Fall, Past, Air

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.75, Penguin

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• To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

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  Collapse, Knows, Trapped

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.101, Penguin

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• A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Water, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.191, Penguin

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  Dirty, People, Leave Me Alone

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

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  Song, Heart, Chords

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• Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

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  Believe, Want, All Things

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.331, Penguin

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• No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

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  Fall, Hero, Hands

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

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  Greatness, Feelings, Myth

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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• The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

  Frank Herbert

  Bees, Enough

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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