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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is cert

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. – Frank Herbert

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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. – Frank Herbert

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