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• If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

  Frank Herbert

  Focus, Awareness, Force

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.181, Penguin

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• Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Luck, Survival

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• We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

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• Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

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  Way, Problem, Problem Solving

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.251, Penguin

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• The universe does not work by our rules

  Frank Herbert

  Doe, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Destination Void”, Berkley

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• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Secret

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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• The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

  Frank Herbert

  Stress, Thinking, Training

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.230, Penguin

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• The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Secret, Answers

  "Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel".

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• The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Tables, Violence

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

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• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Experts, Useless, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

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  Technology, People, Risk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

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• If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Immortality, Deny

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.377, Penguin

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• The dice cannot read their own spots.

  Frank Herbert

  Perception, Dice, Spots

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.166, Penguin

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• The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Tests, Ultimate

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• A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

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  Powerful, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.12, Penguin

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• Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Practice, Attention

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• Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Police, Criminals

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Peers, Prophet, Curtains

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

  Frank Herbert

  Enemy, Stronger, Allies

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• Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

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  Simple, Decision, Too Much

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

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• If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

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  Believe, Belief, Share

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• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

  Frank Herbert

  Wish, Casts, Fishes

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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• A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

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  Wrath, Stones, Fool

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.225, Penguin

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• Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Restoration, Life Is, Mask

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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