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Thrive Quotes by Frank Herbert
- Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
- When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than…
- The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise…
- The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that…
- What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
- There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
- 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…
- Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
- A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
- The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act…
- The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
- A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
- Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules…
- 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…
- 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…
- Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond…
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- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey