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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 to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

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  Believe, People, Training

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

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  Love Life, Self, Ideas

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

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• Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

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  Machinery, Ambiguous, Gross

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.175, Penguin

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• Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

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  Blood, Water, Politics

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• Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

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  Teaching, Ease, Failing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

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• Humans are almost always lonely.

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  Lonely, Humanity, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.29, Penguin

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• The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

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  Survival, Important, Form

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• There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

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  Hypocrite, Rebel, Selfless

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.32, Penguin

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• The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

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  Future, Journey, Desire

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

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  Father, Men, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

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  Balance, Care, Delicate

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.11, Penguin

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• Journalism is the entertainment business.

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  Entertainment, Journalism, Entertainment Business

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• There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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  Pay, Violence, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

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  Believe, Trying, Comfort

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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• Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Support

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.

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• When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

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  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

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• A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

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  Creativity, Alive, Requirements

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• Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

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  Men, Perfection, Risk

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• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

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  Ends

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.67, Penguin

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• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

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  Suffering, Purpose, Empires

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.49, Penguin

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• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

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  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

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  Dream, Bored, Steps

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.151, Penguin

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• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

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  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

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• Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

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  Men, Caves, Retreat

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.189, Penguin

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