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Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.

Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.

My Sihaya,' he said as he held her, 'I have loved you for five thousand years.

Quite a body count around here today, Fenring mused. And I didn't kill any of them.

All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Seeker, who says religion is the way to God?

Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.

I can envision calculations all the way to infinity," she said, as if in a trance. "I don't have to write them down.

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences - humans do not.

The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. - FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Looking closely at de Vries, he added, 'You are a very ugly man, Piter. Even with my disease, I'm still prettier than you.

Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence -

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can
only be outgrown.

So I have failed you?" "Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.

Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

There's so much overlapping in science fiction.

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.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

In preservation canisters, so they could be installed into any cymek walker. Now

Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff.

Though death will cancel it, life in this world is a glorious thing.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

Weapons come in an infinite variety of shapes and designs. Some look exactly like people.

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

Seurat's flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship's cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.

Dhartha's deep blue eyes flashed. "This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

We are trained to believe and not to know.

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.

You will have to rebuild an entire city." Xavier looked at Rhengalid with little sympathy. "But you can do that only because you are alive and free.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are
all Face Dancers in our souls.

I have seen into the heart of the universe.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what
they think it is.

Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty.

We must face our responsibilities regardless of whether we get what we want.

Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. - LIET-KYNES,

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept I

There is no reality
only our own order imposed on everything.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.'
'So am I,' de Vries said.

If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!

You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!

We moved 23 times before I was out of high school!

Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. - XAVIER HARKONNEN,

Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked.

Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.

Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just ... pleasant tones, adequately performed.

The greatest relevancy can become irrelevant in the space of a heartbeat.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Discovery is dangerous ... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is
doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

Even victories take their toll on a man.

We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don't have to be dismal about it.

The desert sorted the faithful from imposters, but the city did not seem to know the difference, and actually rewarded the impure.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Jool Noret, we admire you. You are the scourge of Omnius." "I am merely doing my job.

The Baron felt cold inside, certain that even the most careful manipulations would not stand up to the close scrutiny of these demonic auditors.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.