Frank Herbert Quotes
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.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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I just tell you, the Lord's been good to me. Even if I was a rounder, He's been really, really nice to me.
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Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
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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.
