... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical …

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... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.62, Penguin
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War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.281, Penguin
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.35, Penguin

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.62, Penguin

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