"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."

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Frank Herbert

#People Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Awakening Quotes

“The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.”
“There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."”
“No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.”
“In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.”
“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!”
“I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me”
“The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”

Source : David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage

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