Frank Herbert Quotes
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
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I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
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Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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It is not true that the Republican party has not endeavored to protect the negro in his right to vote. The whole moral power of the party has been, from first to last, on the side of justice to the negro; and it has only been baffled, in its efforts to protect the negro in his vote, by the Democratic party.
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In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
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All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk.
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It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.
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Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
