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Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
Absolute power is the power to destroy.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), 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 (1920 - 1986), Dune
Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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 replaces by vague ritual.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune

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