When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
("Dune")
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Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly... The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are supreme.Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
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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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Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
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