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Quote by Frank Herbert
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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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. – Frank Herbert

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It is the duty of Her Majestys government neither to flap nor to falter. – Harold MacMillan

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Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldnt have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? – Richard J. Daley

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