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"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
Ancient Fremen Saying
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"Why are you going to prolong the inevitable? I will kill you!"
Feyd-Rautha
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
Piter De Vries
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"We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God."
Paul Atreides
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"You have no need for your weapons with me, Gurney Halleck."
Paul Atreides
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"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work."
Gurney Halleck
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"The slow blade penetrates the shield."
Gurney Halleck
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain."
Paul Atreides
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"Tell me of your homeworld, Usul."
Chani
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"I knew Yueh's wife. I was the one who broke his Imperial conditioning. I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm. Desire clouds my reason. That is not good. That is bad."
Piter De Vries
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"Who is the little one, a pet perhaps? Will she deserve my special attentions?"
Feyd-Rautha
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"I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Duke Leto Atreides
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"He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!"
Baron Harkonnen
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"The spice must flow."
Baron Harkonnen
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"My name is a killing word."
Paul Atreides
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"Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arakeen air."
Paul Atreides
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"Long live the fighters!"
Paul Atreides
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"I'm dead to everyone unless I become what I may be."
Paul Atreides
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"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
Paul Atreides
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"A million deaths is not enough for Yueh."
Lady Jessica
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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 corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
Missionara Protectiva,Text QIV
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"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security."
Bene Gesserit Coda
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"Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
Law and Governance The Spacing Guild Manual
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"Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?"
Paul Atreides
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"I want to spit, once, on your head."
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
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