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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “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, Dune
    tags: stress
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: stength
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: easy-living, luxury, paradise, softness, survivalism, weakness
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: ecology, freedom, population, population-growth
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: egotistical
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
    - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
    tags: government, philosophy
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
    tags: government, rulership, spacing-guild
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: attract, governments, pathological-personalities, power, problem, recurring, suffer
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: wealth
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: rebellion
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “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, Dune Messiah
    tags: constitution, power, tyranny
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “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, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: corruption, criminals, injustice, police
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction
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    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: philosophy
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    Banksy
    “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
    tags: entropy, rebel, rebellion, revolution
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: art, artists, be-yourself, catholic-author, creative-process, encouragement, funny, gadfly, humor, humor-inspirational, individuality, inspirational, ironic, irony, irony-of-life, rebel, rebellion, rebels, stupidity, stupidity-of-man, uniqueness
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
    tags: capital-punishment
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, truth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: truth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
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