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  • #1
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #2
    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #3
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #5
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune

  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #11
    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #12
    Frank Herbert
    “Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    -Ancient Fremen Saying”
    Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

  • #13
    Dan Abnett
    “In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.”
    Dan Abnett, Xenos

  • #14
    Dan Abnett
    “I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous. --Ibram Gaunt”
    Dan Abnett, Necropolis

  • #15
    Colleen McCullough
    “Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
    Colleen McCullough, Caesar

  • #16
    Colleen McCullough
    “The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.”
    Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    Douglas Adams

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
    "Why, what did she tell you?"
    "I don't know, I didn't listen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy



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