We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the a…

Frank Herbert
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We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? ✨ Frank Herbert (2008). Children of Dune, p.103, Penguin
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