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Children of Dune Quote 71
Many forces sought control of the Atreides twins and, when the death of Leto was announced, this movement of plot and counterplot was amplified. Note the relative motivations: the Sisterhood feared Alia, an adult Abomination, but still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides. The Church hierarchy of Auqaf and Hajj saw only the power implicit in control of Muad’Dib’s heir. CHOAM wanted a doorway to the wealth of Dune. Farad’n and his Sardaukar sought a return to glory for House Corrino. The Spacing Guild feared the equation Arrakis=melange; without the spice they could not navigate. Jessica wished to repair what her disobendience to the Bene Gesserit had created. Few thought to ask the twins what their plans might be, until it was too late.
Page 396 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 70
Never to forgive, never to forget
Page 392 paperback
(popular saying)
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Children of Dune Quote 69
O Paul, thou Muad’Dib,
Mahdi of all men,
Thy breath exhaled
Sent forth the huricen.
Page 387 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 68
You will learn the integrated communication methods as you complete the next step in your mental education. This is a gestalten function which will overlay data paths in your awareness, resolving complexities and masses of input from the mentat index-catalogue techniques which you have already mastered. Your initial problem will be the breaking tensions arising from the divergent assembly of minutiae/data on specialized subjects. Be warned. Without mentat overlay integration, you can be immersed in the Babel Problem, which is the label we give to omnipresent dangers of achieving wrong combinations from accurate information.
Page 379 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 67
Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises.
Page 373 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 66
Challenge: Silence? Answer: The friend of the hunted.
Page 369 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 65
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
Page 365 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 64
We can still remember the golden days before Heisenberg, who showed humans the walls enclosing our predestined arguments. The lives within me find this amusing. Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.
Page 360 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 63
Beneath the hill where the fox runs lightly,
A dappled sun shines brightly
Where my one love’s still.
Beneath the hill in the fennel brake
I spy my love who cannot wake.
He hides in a grave
Beneath the hill.
Page 350 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 62
Only in the realm of mathematics can you understand Muad’Dib’s precise view of the future. Thus: first, we postulate any number of point-dimensions in space. (This is the classic n-fold extended aggregate of n dimensions.) With this framework, Time as commonly understood becomes an aggregate of one-dimensional properties. Applying this to the Muad’Dib phenomenon, we find that we either are confronted by new properties Time or (by reduction through the infinity calculus) we are dealing with separate systems which contain n body properties. For Muad’Dib, we assume the latter. As demonstrated by the reduction, the point dimensions of the n-fold can only have separate existence within Time. Separate dimensions of Time are thus demonstrated to coexist. This being the inescapable case, Muad’Dib’s predictions required that he perceive the n-fold not as extended aggregate but as an operation within a single framework. In effect, he froze his universe into that one framework which was his view of Time.
Page 349 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 61
In human affairs, nothing remains enduring; all human affairs revolve in a helix, moving around and out
Page 346 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 60
Burning be on you, Atreides! You shall have no souls, nor spirits, nor bodies, nor shades nor magic nor bones, nor heir nor utterances nor words. You shall have no grave, nor house nor hole nor tomb. You shall have no garden, nor tree nor bush. You shall have no water, nor bread nor light nor fire. You shall have no family nor heirs nor tribe. You shall have no head, nor arms nor legs nor gait nor seed. You shall have no seats on any planet. Your souls shall not be permitted to come up from the depths, and they shall never be among those permitted to live on the earth. On no day shall you behold Shai-Hulud, but you shall be bound and fettered in the nethermost-abomination and your souls shall never enter into the glorious light for ever and ever.
Page 343 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 59
The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.
Page 340 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 58
Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain capable of saying: “There’s no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we’ll correct that when we come to it.” The mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own speciality. The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change intself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: “Now what is this thing doing?”
Page 329 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 57
The death wind has etched away their past.
Page 326 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 56
Like the knowledge of your own being, the sietch forms a firm base from which you move out into the world and into the universe.
Page 326 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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Children of Dune Quote 55
I saw his blood and a piece of his robe which had been ripped by sharp claws. His sister reports vividly of the tigers, the sureness of their attack. We have questioned one of the plotters, and the others are dead or in custody. Everything points to a Corrino plot. A Truthsayer has attested to this testimony.
Page 321 paperback
(Frank Herbert)
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