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“Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich--yes, richer than a king--
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
― Edward Arlington Robinson

“The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“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

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“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

“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Desperate people are the most dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune