Locks Quote by Frank Herbert

“Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.”

Frank Herbert

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“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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