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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Choices

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Making Love, Matter

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.37, Penguin

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• War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Cells, Sea

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.281, Penguin

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• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  Frank Herbert

  Demise, Mortality, Ends

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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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

  Fear, Trying, Looks

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.411, Penguin

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• Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Finals, Moments

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• Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Entrepreneur

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Love Is, Way

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• When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

  Frank Herbert

  Determination, Fate, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Snakes, Agony, Skins

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

  Frank Herbert

  Enemy, Easier, Admire

  FRANK HERBERT (1965). “DUNE”

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• Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Use, Radical

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

  Frank Herbert

  Memories, Fall, Reality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

  Frank Herbert

  Tone, Comedy, Psychological

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

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• Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

  Frank Herbert

  Criticism, Looks, Use

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.224, Macmillan

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• A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Business, Moving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

  Frank Herbert

  Reeds, Peril, Young

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• They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Violence, Quiet, Speak

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.170, Penguin

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• One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

  Frank Herbert

  Taken, Use, Victim

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.183, Penguin

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• Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Doors, Long, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.310, Penguin

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Animal, Might

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

  Frank Herbert

  Order, Raw Materials, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.349, Penguin

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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. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Understanding, Over You

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

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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

  Self, People, Want

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Boredom, Free Will

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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