"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice."
"In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources."
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Source: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.353, Macmillan
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