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  • #1
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #2
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #3
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #5
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”
    Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”
    Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #11
    Frank Herbert
    “The universe does not work by our rules”
    Frank Herbert, Destination: Void

  • #12
    Frank Herbert
    “This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
    Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
    That was the end of holiness for both churches.”
    Frank Herbert, The White Plague

  • #14
    Michael Crichton
    “In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
    Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

  • #15
    Michael Crichton
    “Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”
    Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

  • #16
    Michael Crichton
    “Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.”
    Michael Crichton, Disclosure
    tags: women

  • #17
    Michael Crichton
    “Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
    Michael Crichton, The Lost World

  • #18
    Michael Crichton
    “Friendships are nice. So is competence.”
    Michael Crichton, Disclosure

  • #19
    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    Wystan Hugh Auden

  • #20
    W.H. Auden
    “Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey



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