"It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uniniti...
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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"But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders ma...
"What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
"To accept a little death is worse than death itself.
"You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
"I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
"Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
"Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that su...
"Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experienc...
"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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"It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.
"He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
"You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
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