"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
-Frank Herbert
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.“
-Frank Herbert
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
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"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
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"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."
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"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
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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."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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