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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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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife–chopping off whats incomplete and saying: Now its complete because its ended here. – Frank Herbert

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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. – Frank Herbert

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