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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.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

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

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

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Caves, Retreat

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

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

  Frank Herbert

  Court

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

  Frank Herbert

  Intellectual, Ignorant, Trying

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

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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

  Frank Herbert

  Roots, Giving, Identity

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

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• Something cannot emerge from nothing.

  Frank Herbert

  Profound Truth

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

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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.

  Frank Herbert

  Littles, No Fear, Kill Me

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

  Frank Herbert

  Answers, Sensible, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.339, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Finals, Moments

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

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Love Is, Way

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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.

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  Snakes, Agony, Skins

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.133, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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  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.

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  Reeds, Peril, Young

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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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