If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the … - Frank Herbert

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There is not a single country in the world that is not interested in doing business with China. And no one is seriously concerned about human rights. But Africans are criticized for wanting to do business with China.

Frank Herbert

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

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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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