"Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself."
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"What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people."
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"Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you."
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"Grief is the price of victory."
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"There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking."
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"Men always fear things which move by themselves."
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"Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity."
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"Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine."
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"History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe."
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"To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions."
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"If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space."
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"Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!""
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"To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future."
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"Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night."
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"It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable."
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"Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws."
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"Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change"
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"Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster."
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"The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib"
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"I am not the kind of person I want to be."
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