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• A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Sleep, New Experiences, Needs

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• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Thought Provoking, Innovation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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• Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

  Frank Herbert

  Adventure, Errors, Atheism

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.275, Penguin

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• If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.364, Penguin

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• It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Happiness, Past, Waste

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• There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Writing, Stories

  Interview with Willis McNelly, www.sinanvural.com. February 3, 1969.

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• Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Firsts, Emotion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.20, Penguin

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

  Frank Herbert

  Ideas, Dimes, Dozen

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• The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

  Frank Herbert

  Science, Fiction, Sometimes

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• Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, Tools, Faces

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, "Conversations in Port Townsend," (1983), 1987.

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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. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, People, Drunk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• Every civilization depends on 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

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• Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Corruption, Power And Corruption

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, People, Gliding

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

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• Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

  Frank Herbert

  Soul, Might, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2010). “God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, People, Reason

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gathering, Cliffs

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• Each life creates endless ripples.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Endless, Ripple

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.72, Penguin

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• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Trust, People

  "The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert". "Mother Earth News", No. 69, May/ June 1981.

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• Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

  Frank Herbert

  Civilization, Quality, Individual

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.312, Penguin

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• Silence is often the best thing to say.

  Frank Herbert

  Silence, Silence Is, Best Things

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.105, Penguin

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• It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Past, Return

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.351, Penguin

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• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Political, Doe

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