Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.
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If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, w...
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Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
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It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uniniti...
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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders ma...
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You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
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I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
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He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.
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The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
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What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that su...
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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experienc...
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
