The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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

What is more ridiculous than a Death Commando transformed into a priest?.

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

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It occurred to Kynes that all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

This energy must have an outlet. Bottle it up and it becomes monstrously dangerous. Redirect it and it will sweep over anything in its path.

The powerful want a 'safe line of investigations,' which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

"I demonstrate the terrible danger of a gliding, passionless mediocrity,[. ]I show you that entire civilizations can do this thing. I give you eons of life which slips gently toward death without fuss or stirring, without even asking 'Why?'".

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

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Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time.

O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers. — Sign over Arrakeen Landing Field".

Success, that was the danger. It had cost them an empire. If you waved your success around like a banner someone always wanted to cut you down.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the ignorant approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

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