A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. . . he must lay the best coffee … - Frank Herbert

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The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Frank Herbert

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. . . he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men. . . a good ruler has to learn his world's language. . . it's different for every world. . . the language of the rocks and growing things. . . the language you don't hear just with your ears. . . the Mystery of Life. . . not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. . . Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

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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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