#herbert

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required. -The Coda ↗

— Frank Herbert

#nature

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#back #become #books #could #death

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#course #create #first #furthermore #gain

What does a mirror look at? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#dune #frank #herbert #mirror #scifi

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#ever #geology #herbert #herbert hoover #hoover

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#after #argument #as far as #commitment #day