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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
-- Herbert Prochnow
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
-- Herbert Hoover
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
-- Frank Herbert
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig
All goverments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathalogical personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
-- Frank Herbert