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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: education, intelligence, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: politics, religion, science-fiction
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    Frank Herbert
    “Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    -Ancient Fremen Saying”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: introspection
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    Frank Herbert
    “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
    - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
    tags: government, philosophy
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    Frank Herbert
    “The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: action, improve, life, lives, power, rule, ruling-government
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: actions, deception, words
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: stress
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    Frank Herbert
    “Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: greatness, myth, pretension, sardonic
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    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: thoughtful
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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: ecology, freedom, population, population-growth
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    Frank Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
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    Frank Herbert
    “Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: stength
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    Frank Herbert
    “The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: attract, governments, pathological-personalities, power, problem, recurring, suffer
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