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“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”
― Barbara Marciniak

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“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”
― Peter Senge

tags: cynicism, idealism

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“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
― Peter Senge

tags: change, resistance

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#4

“You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.”
― Peter Senge

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#5

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, proverb

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#6

“The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

tags: children, dune, growing-up

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#7

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#8

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: politics

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#9

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: education, intelligence, wisdom

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#10

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

tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan

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#11

“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

tags: politics, religion, science-fiction

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“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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#13

“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

tags: inspirational, philosophy, truth

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#14

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: commodity, economics, science-fiction, spice, supply-chain

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#15

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth

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#16

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert

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#17

“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

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#18

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#19

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: duke-leto-atreides

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“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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#21

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

tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity

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#22

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: action, improve, life, lives, power, rule, ruling-government

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#23

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: poverty, violence

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#24

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

tags: criticism, poverty

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#25

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: humanity, misery, poverty

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#26

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth

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#27

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

tags: injustice, poverty, social-institutions, society

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#28

“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

tags: compassion, dignity, poverty

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#29

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
― Herman Melville

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#30

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth

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