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• Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
  -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune...
• The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see.
  When you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment....
• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.
  -- from "Manual of Maud'Dib" by the Princess Irula...
• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.
  -- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib...
• 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....
• 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...
• People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- Frank Herbert, Dune
• The Princess Bride "Inconceivable!" "You use that word a lot.
  I do not think it means what you think it does....
• 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...