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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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• 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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• 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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• Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

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  Law, Competition, Growth

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

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  Believe, Boredom, Free Will

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

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• When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

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  Differences, Training, Stranger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.130, Penguin

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• The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

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  Over It, Absolutes

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.410, Penguin

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• We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

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  Power, Wealth, Mask

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

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• To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

  Frank Herbert

  Heart, Soul, Desire

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• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

  Frank Herbert

  Mountain, Littles, Tests

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

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• Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

  Frank Herbert

  Cities, Desert, Polish

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.269, Macmillan

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• The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

  Frank Herbert

  Eye, Saws, Matter

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.51, Penguin

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• We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

  Frank Herbert

  Storm, Gone

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.213, Penguin

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• You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gentleman, Awakening

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.389, Penguin

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• Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

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  Resistance, Helping, Belief

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.308, Penguin

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• The past is no farther away than your pillow.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Pillow

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

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• Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

  Frank Herbert

  Adventure, Population, Doe

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.221, Macmillan

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• Fear is the mind-killer.

  Frank Herbert

  Fear, Mind, Killers

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

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  Feelings, Guilt, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.288, Hachette UK

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• To determine if you're human. Be silent.

  Frank Herbert

  Silent, Determine, Humans

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

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• That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Quality, Purpose

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Perfection, Form

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

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  Sadness, Parting

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.33, Penguin

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• History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

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  Race, History, Invention

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.352, Penguin

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