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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

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Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–ter...more

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To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even you...more

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To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

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Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with ...more

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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of t...more

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My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

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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 worl...more

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The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love ...more

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This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.