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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

~Frank Herbert

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

~Frank Herbert

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Freedom Pursuit Slavery Tool Way Wealth

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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Any Bit Cannot Climb End Followed Just Just A Little Bit Leads Little Little Bit Mountain Nowhere Precisely Road See Test Top You

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Another Around Cannot Deaf Deafness Fact Hear Lack May Person Possess See Senses Then Think Us We Cannot World You

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

~Frank Herbert

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Angry Denial Him His How Inner Inner Self Man Often Self Telling

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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

~Frank Herbert

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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

~Frank Herbert

Topics: Ancestors Escape Our Pay Violence

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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

~Frank Herbert

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 8th, 1920

Died: February 11th, 1986

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