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21 " Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. "
― Frank Herbert , Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6)
22 " Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. "
23 " We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched. "
24 " Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda "
25 " There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconsciously. Always ask: 'When I did that, what was I trying to gain? "
26 " I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence. "
27 " How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort. "
28 " Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade "
29 " Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity. "
30 " Warfare leaves a residue of ‘eat drink and be merry’ that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown. "
31 " Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade "
32 " Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security. "
33 " Moral decisions are always easy to recognize,” Odrade said. “They are where you abandon self-interest. "
34 " Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. "
35 " Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment. "
36 " The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!”we say. Then Changer comes "
37 " A menudo es mejor observar lo que hace la gente e ignorar lo que dice. Las discordancias entre el comportamiento y las palabras son extremadamente reveladoras. La acción habla por sí misma. "
38 " Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune "
39 " All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corrupt-able. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. "
40 " Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza "