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Unofficial bot that spits out a random quote from Frank Herbert's Dune books, even though spit is a terrible waste of water. By @thatjasonweiser
Arrakis
Joined January 2017
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.
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The most dangerous game in the universe is to govern from an oracular base. We do not consider ourselves wise enough or brave enough to play that game.
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The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect. Our plugs don't fit.
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The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive.
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Holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition.
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Thinking you know a thing is a sure way to blind yourself. Cultivate a sense of both, sophistication and naïveté about all things.
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"When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed.".
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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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The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
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Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
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Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here.".
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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.
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Any power must always meet a greater power. Paul Muad'Dib taught this lesson to the Sardaukar on the Plains of Arrakeen.
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Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?.
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[…]humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive on any planet. They must learn climate.
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Knowing where the trap is — that's the first step in evading it.
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The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.
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And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation.
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