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Category: Brian Herbert

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

inspirational-attitude

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

gods, religion, universe

A winner has more skills than a loser,” Vor said, “no matter how you define the competition.

competition, losers, losing, vorian-atreides, winners, winning

But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

dune-the-butlerian-jihad, sci-fi

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

life-experience

As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?…” p330

death-and-dying

With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.

movement-of-change, rebellion, revolution

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

knowledge, teaching

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

inspirational, life

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

inspirational, life