“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the…

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.…

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“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This…

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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

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If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

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