"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
-Frank Herbert
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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
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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