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• I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

  Frank Herbert

  Hands, People, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, 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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• 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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• Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Son, Loss

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

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• But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

  Frank Herbert

  Well Known, Wells, Repression

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.328, Penguin

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• The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• Is evolution just another name for God?

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  Names, Evolution

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.12, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Fall, Pedestal

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

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

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  Children, Needs, About Yourself

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

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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.

  Frank Herbert

  Song, Heart, Chords

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

  Frank Herbert

  Fall, Hero, Hands

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

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• Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Army, Police, Enemy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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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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• 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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• A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

  Frank Herbert

  Creating, Antithesis, Particular

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.24, Penguin

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• A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

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  Leadership, People, Leader

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.256, Penguin

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• That path leads ever down into stagnation.

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  Path, Stagnation

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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

  Frank Herbert

  Giving, Lamps, Give Me

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

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