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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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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. – 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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. – Will Durant

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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. – Milton Friedman

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

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With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back. – Russian Proverb

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We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights. – Frank Murphy

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People spend so much time in their cars, and its a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. – Jordana Brewster

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