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by Kakuzō Okakura

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“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: thoughtful

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

tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan

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“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

tags: government, nations, politics

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“Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses”
― Frank Herbert

tags: humanity, progress, society-s-increasing-stupidity

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