"It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized."

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Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Atreides”, p.30, Spectra

Brian Herbert

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“Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.”
“I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.”
“I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.”
“In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of civilization in England: In 5 vol”, p.291
“On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.”
“Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.”
“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.”

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