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• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them.
  -- _Dune_, by Frank Herbe...
• is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.
  It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. -- Frank Herbert, Dune...
• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
  -- Frank Herbert, Dune, Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irula...
• Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
  -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune...
• Here lies a toppled god; His fall was not a small one.
  We did but build his pedestal-- A narrow and a tall one....
• The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see.
  When you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment....
• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
  . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive....
• Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.
  The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery....
• Times are hard, times are so hard right now people who don't intend to pay ain't buyin'.
  -- Slappy White...