Each man is a little war.
Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.
All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.
Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction...
Mood? Halleck’s voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield’s filtering. What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making...
Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that...
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It ev...