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An unofficial bot that spits out a random curated #quote from Frank Herbert's six #Dune books, even though spit is a terrible waste of water. Originally on Twitter/X: https://x.com/dunequotebot By: @jasonweiser.com
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"I was a friend of Jamis"

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the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.

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"I was brought to this cell by your Priests. As with all Priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy."

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Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

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One of us had to accept the agony, and he was always the stronger.

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The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk.

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At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

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To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

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Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

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The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too, was action with its consequences.

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He shall know your ways as if born to them.

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Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

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The Universe is God's. [...]a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.

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A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

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Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags you to doom.

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It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

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'Give as few orders as possible,' his father had told him once long ago. 'Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.'

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I have said: 'Blow out the lamp! Day is here!' And you keep saying: 'Give me a lamp so I can find the day.'

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If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.

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The only business of the Fremen should be that of opening his soul to the inner teachings. The worlds of the Imperium, the Landsraad and the CHOAM Confederacy have no message to give him. They will only rob him of his soul.

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All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

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Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt.

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The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

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I never thought it would be easy to serve God. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

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Did you build high walls around you only to sit within them and indulge in self-pity?

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There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.

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Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.

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Sometimes, the supremely rich did become depraved. That came from believing that money could buy anything and everything.

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Sacred! As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.

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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

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Arrakis could be an Eden if its rulers would look up from grubbing for spice!

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Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.

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"If I desired a puppet, the Duke would marry me," she said. "He might even think he did it of his own free will."

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Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

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One bargains with equals or near equals!

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The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery.

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Humankind periodically goes through a speedup of its affairs, thereby experiencing the race between the renewable vitality of the living and the beckoning vitiation of decadence.

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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.

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To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater power

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"He told you that completion equals death!" The Preacher shouted. "Absolute prediction is completion...is death!"

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

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There was a man so wise, \ He jumped into \ A sandy place \ And burnt out both his eyes! \ And when he knew his eyes were gone, \ He offered no complaint. \ He summoned up a vision \ And made himself a saint. —Children's Verse

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It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

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It is human to have your soul brought to a crisis you did not anticipate.

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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. The real universe is always one step beyond logic

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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

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Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.

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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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With a Fremen suit in good working order you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day.

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