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“The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange

“Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves.

Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine.”
― Alan Liu

“I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you’re not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

“For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured.
“For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?”
“You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Bundy wasn't just a savage killer; he was a degenerate, too.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy : Conversations with a Killer

“There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.”
― Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat

“In fact, the average unbanked family with an annual income of around $25,000 spends about $2,400 per year, almost 10 percent of its income, on financial transactions.”
― Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

“Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Madness in method, that's genius”
― Frank Herbert

“Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Anything and anyone can fail," he said, "but brave good friends help.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Religion suppresses curiosity.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“How sure it is, Leto thought, that a weapon can lock a person into a predictable pattern of behavior.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Any religion circles like a planet around a sun which it must use for its energy, upon which it depends for its very existence."
Her voice came barely above a whisper: "What do you see in your sun, Lord?"
"A universe of many windows through which I may peer. Whatever the window frames, that is what I see."
"The future?"
"The universe is timeless at its roots and contains therefore all times and all futures.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Chris didn’t need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.”
― Michelle Tackabery, Within Your Reach: A Journey Through Diabetes