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““My son displays a general garment and you claim it’s cut to your fit?” Jessica asked. “What a fascinating revelation.””

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“He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.”

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“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few…

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“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were…

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“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.”

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The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

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“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

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“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.”

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“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?”

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“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the…

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking…

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“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This…

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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected…

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“My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.”

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“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”

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“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely…

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“I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of…

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“Fragmentation is the natural destiny of all power.”

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“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or…

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