Frank Herbert Quotes
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.
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Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
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Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?
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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
