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Dune
The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
Frank Herbert • Dune
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their
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Certainly they smell profits, and likely as others smell those same profits his voting strength will increase.
Frank Herbert • Dune
maelstrom.
Frank Herbert • Dune
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
Frank Herbert • Dune
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own
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kanly.
Frank Herbert • Dune
‘From water does all life begin.’
Frank Herbert • Dune
She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.