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He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

How sure it is, Leto thought, that a weapon can lock a person into a predictable pattern of behavior.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He

My son has the Atreides sincerity... He has that tremendous, almost naive honor-and what a powerful force that truly is.

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me." The

The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment.

Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. (Brian Herbert's Introduction)

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica

and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

Sex for pleasure, the enemy of religion, eh?

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

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

This whole thing is explosive," Scytale said in a calmer voice. "It's ready to shatter. When it goes, it will send bits of itself out through the centuries. Don't you see this?

The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

sweet sharings upon which arose something of painful beauty.

On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.