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You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the co...more

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I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messia...more

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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...more

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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and fa...more

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I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

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He who controls the spice controls the universe.

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They compose poems to their knives.

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I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

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Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen...more

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My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence a...more

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It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

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Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. H...more