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  1. 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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  2. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    It is another kind of marriage-the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.
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  3. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    U usporedbi s beskonačnošću, sve što se naziva dugoročnim zapravo je kratkoročno.
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  4. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu."
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  5. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily. Why
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  7. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This … rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.
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  8. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.
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  9. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.
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  10. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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  11. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her
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  12. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.
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