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- I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To…
- 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…
- Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating…
- There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
- 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. For…
- Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was…
- 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…
- Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make…
- I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle