The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert

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I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Frank Herbert

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

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There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib

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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. . . We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

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Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

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Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

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