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The dream becomes more real each time I experience it. In my waking moments, I long to return there, though I sense great danger. —PAUL ATREIDES, private
Malina was the Urdir of the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles,
When all truly seems lost and hopeless, you may very well be right. —A saying of the desert Fremen on Arrakis
Because of Gurney’s failure, Emperor Shaddam didn’t know that Duke Leto was merely pretending to side with the violent rebels.
He recalled a verse from the Orange Catholic Bible, clung to it. “Pain is only pain, and the children of God have many ways to shield against it, through memories, through loyalty, through love, and through faith.”
Trust is dangerous. Use it sparingly and with great caution. —Bene Gesserit axiom
Whether one is savior or destroyer, hero or villain, depends largely upon perspective. And perspective can be altered with the careful filtering of information. —MENTAT PITER DE VRIES, notes on the disposition of House Harkonnen in the Imperium
Justice is achieved by inflicting a severe and appropriate punishment upon a criminal. Fairness is achieved by properly defining and identifying such criminals. —EMPEROR FONDIL III, annals of Imperial law
Crisis leads to opportunity, and opportunities can easily lead to disaster. Recognize both and learn to adapt. —Landsraad Political Strategy Manual, edition tailored to the Great Houses
She gazed up at the statue of the first Reverend Mother, her beatific face carved from marble. Though Raquella Berto-Anirul had lived ten thousand years earlier, her features were presumably accurate in this rendition, preserved through Other Memory. Raquella had been poisoned, and though she had survived, she emerged changed. That had started millennia of Bene Gesserit training and transformation. Now, though, the heroic-looking statue offered Jessica too little comfort. Fatigue and dread seeped through every bone and muscle of her body.
“Silence!” Shaddam’s expression tightened, but he felt the joy building inside him. “Instead, I grant the fief of Arrakis to House Atreides. Your dear friend Duke Leto will take your place here.” He raised his hand, looked out at the blocky industrial buildings the Harkonnens had built in Carthag. As he considered the distant dunes, the stark mountains, the harsh heat, the miserable conditions, Shaddam realized this was not exactly a reward for his Atreides cousin, but no one could dispute the magnitude of the gift.
Opportunity can be a dangerous thing. —DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, commentary on the Boorhees occupation
Why do certain people take on greater and greater challenges that require supreme efforts to accomplish? One has only to look at the opposite type of person, one who attempts little in life, to answer this question. It is the difference between a leader and a follower, but they have a symbiotic relationship because one cannot exist without the other. —PAUL ATREIDES, private journals
