Simmons hadn’t been too surprised to find Franklin a young bearded man who looked more like he ought to be doing a poetry reading at a college than leading people to look at a classified government facility.
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Dune
― Dune
“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.
How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
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How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
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“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Dune
― Dune
“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”
― Dune
― Dune
“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.”
― Dune
― Dune
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