The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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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
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying 'Now, it's compete because it's ended here.'
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
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