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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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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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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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We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. – Zachary Quinto

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Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.79

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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if facts are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? – J. C. Watts

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I dont want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I dont want to be controlled by the U.S. – Muqtada al Sadr

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. – Cicero, quoted in Lillian Eichler Watson, Light from Many Lamps, 1951

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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. – John Drinkwater

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I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesnt have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway

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