Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system,
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“She looked to me like a librarian is supposed to, slightly stern, with a longer-than-average neck.”
― Themes and Variations
― Themes and Variations
“Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“In 1936, Gerhard Gentzen provided a proof of the consistency of arithmetic, but to do it he needed to use a controversial technique known as transfinite induction. This technique is not among the usual methods of proof, and it hardly seemed appropriate for guaranteeing the consistency of arithmetic. What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.”
― Arrival: Film tie-in
― Arrival: Film tie-in
“By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you. —FIRST DRAFT, ATREIDES MANIFESTO, BENE GRESSERIT ARCHIVES”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
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