Brian Herbert Quotes

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• Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
• The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
• The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
• Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
• Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
• How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
• Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
• Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
• Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they…
• It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
• Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union…
• Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
• No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.
• Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.
• In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.
• Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

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