The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss … - Frank Herbert

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With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

Frank Herbert

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

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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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