"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life."
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"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
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"The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change."
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"Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum."
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"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
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"When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite."
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"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."
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"A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel."
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"Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
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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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"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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"What is the son but an extension of the father?"
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"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."
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"Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it."
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"Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms."
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"The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness."
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"That path leads ever down into stagnation."
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"Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke."
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"The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown."
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