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“If you're going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

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“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.” — Frank Herbert

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“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” — Frank Herbert

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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.” — Frank Herbert

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“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.” — Frank Herbert

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“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.” — Charles Bukowski

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