Hard tasks need hard ways.


Frank Herbert

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You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
FRANK HERBERT
My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the stren...
FRANK HERBERT
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the lev...
FRANK HERBERT
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
FRANK HERBERT
Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on...
FRANK HERBERT
Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
FRANK HERBERT
The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric....
FRANK HERBERT
the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
FRANK HERBERT
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...
FRANK HERBERT