Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is … - Frank Herbert

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Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

Frank Herbert

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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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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