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Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.

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The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Beginnings, Dies, Easily, Peril, Reeds, Young

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Kind, Person, Persons, Want

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

Delusion, Language, Learning, Represents, Training

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

Real, Thinking, Numbers, Increase, Number

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Limits, Nature, Pushed, Tolerance, True, Wells

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

Believe, Doe, Men, Precipice, Religion, Travel

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Leads, Path, Safe, Temptation, Warning

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Responsibility, Army, People, Frees, Conspiracy

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Emerge, Nothing, Profound Truth

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Arouses, Jealousy, Man, Men, Powerful

Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction. . . and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

Blow, Decision, Knives, Prediction, See, Shaping

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Children, Father, Believe, Harness, Human, Refuses

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Company, Die, Should, Want

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Chaos, Collecting, Gathering, Ultimate

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Chaos, Children, Horizons, Law, Teaching

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Art, Form, Highest, Perfection, Producing

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Powers, Real, Reality, Thought, Thrive

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Coinage, Control, Court, Let, Rabble, Rest

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Death, Face, Inspirational, Motivational, Permit, Total

Law is the ultimate science.

Law, Science, Ultimate

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