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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

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One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

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We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall...more

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If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

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I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else...more

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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen t...more

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When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but...more

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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This i...more

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No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

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Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen...more

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My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence a...more

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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

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The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.