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Own Quotes by Frank Herbert
- When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
- When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let…
- Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until…
- What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do…
- To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of…
- Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you…
- The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be…
- The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life…
- 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…
- A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
- 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…
- You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
- If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
- Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is…
- If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts
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