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61 " Only liberals really think. Only liberals are intellectual. Only liberals understand the needs of their fellows.” How much viciousness lay concealed in that word! Odrade thought. How much secret ego demanding to feel superior. "
― Frank Herbert , Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
62 " Zulme dair hiçbir kokuyu sevmiyorum. "
63 " 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. "
64 " And what have they created?” Taraza asked. “Only the image of evil stupidity?” “Act stupid long enough and you become stupid, "
65 " Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama. "
66 " I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature.” “We live longer and observe more,” he said. “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.” “I’ve "
67 " So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos. "
68 " Forces that we cannot understand permeate our universe. We see the shadows of those forces when they are projected upon a screen available to our senses, but understand them we do not. "
69 " I learned economics at my mother’s knee,” Teg said. “Food, water, breathable air, living space not contaminated by poisons—there are many kinds of money and the value changes according to the dependency. "
70 " Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. "
71 " Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? "
72 " Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks)—these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you until penis was firmly clasped in vagina. He "
73 " Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. "
74 " Monotonca bağırarak müşteri çekmeye çalışıyorlardı. Seslerinde işgünü sonuna özgü bir canlılık vardı... Eski hayallerin gerçekleşeceği umudundan kaynaklanan ancak bir yandan da hayatlarının değişmeyeceğinin bilinciyle renklenen, sahte bir parıltı. "
75 " Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. —BENE GESSERIT TEACHING "
76 " It began with recognition that humans were not created equal, that they possessed different inherited abilities and experienced different events in their lives. This produced people of different accomplishments and different worth. "
77 " Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory. "
78 " Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a “safe line of investigations,” which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors. "
79 " the universe is created by the participation of consciousness, "
80 " Curiosity unsatisfied tended to create its own answers. Guesses were often more dangerous than facts. "