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“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.” Paul”
― Frank Herbert

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert

“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad”
― Frank Herbert

“I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Yes. They’ll call me…Muad’Dib, ‘The One Who Points the Way.’ Yes…that’s what they’ll call me.”
― Frank Herbert

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
― Thomas A. Edison

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