Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy - Frank Herbert

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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

Frank Herbert

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

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

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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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