"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."
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"You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence."
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"What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?"
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"A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers."
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"The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
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"If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal."
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"Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories."
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"To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence."
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"Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival."
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"If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order."
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"Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival."
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"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock."
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"Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction."
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"The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."
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"Each life creates endless ripples."
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"Hope clouds observation."
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"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
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"Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing."
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"I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity."
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