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Author: Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune Messiah
Earth? Golden Age?" Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
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Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
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Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune
Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.
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Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune
Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.
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Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune
Postoje stvari koje riječi ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez riječi.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
And he thought then about the Guild-the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never dared grasp the sword…and now they could not grasp it. They might have taken Arrakis when they realized the error of specializing on the melange awareness-spectrum narcotic for their navigators. They could have done this, lived their glorious day and died. Instead, they'd existed from moment to moment, hoping the seas in which they swam might produce a new host when the old one died.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.
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