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• When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

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  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

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• There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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  Pay, Violence, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

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  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

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  Future, Journey, Desire

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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• Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

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  Court

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.30, Penguin

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• Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Support

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

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  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

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  Ends

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.67, Penguin

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• I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

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  Believe, Trying, Comfort

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

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  Father, Men, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

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  Men, Perfection, Risk

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• I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

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  Roots, Giving, Identity

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

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  Suffering, Purpose, Empires

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.49, Penguin

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• A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

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  Creativity, Alive, Requirements

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• I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

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  Littles, No Fear, Kill Me

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• I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

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  Inspiration, Worry, Sitting Down

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• Something cannot emerge from nothing.

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  Profound Truth

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin

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• I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

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  Dream, Bored, Steps

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.151, Penguin

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• Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

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  Men, Caves, Retreat

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.189, Penguin

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• Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

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  Intellectual, Ignorant, Trying

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.99, Penguin

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• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

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  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

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  Law, Giving, Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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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.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.327, Hachette UK

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• Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

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  Answers, Sensible, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.339, Penguin

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