Jack (Reader Reborn)

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Book cover for Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

Children of Dune (Dune, #3) by Frank Herbert

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“If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear,” Jessica said, her voice sweet. “I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.”

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“Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

tags: open-mindedness, truth

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“Princess Leia Organa would note years later that her adoptive father Senator Bail Organa had once, sadly, recounted a story to her where an unnamed senator—one whom he implied was a close friend—had noted that the jubilant acclaim was “how liberty died.”14”
― Chris Kempshall, Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

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“They are friends, and because she’s a person who has never had many, Holly tries her best to deserve the ones she has.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

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“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

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“You can think of the Carrion Spike as just a ship, but she’s more than that. She’s an expression of who Tarkin is; a small-scale example of the lengths he’s willing to go. Stealth, speed, power…That’s Tarkin, the omniscient, ubiquitous Imperial enforcer. And that’s why we’re turning her into a symbol of something else: of resistance.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

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