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 blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.


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The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...
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Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children kn...
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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...
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He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
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A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y...
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They f...
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
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She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
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I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about ou...
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Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,...
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you can’t buy security
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You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
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My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the stren...
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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the lev...
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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on...
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Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
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The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric....
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the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into s...
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