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An unofficial bot that spits out a random curated #quote from Frank Herbert's six #Dune books, even though spit is a terrible waste of water. Originally on Twitter/X: https://x.com/dunequotebot By: @jasonweiser.com

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16d

Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16d

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17d

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17d

"Tell me about the waters of your homeworld, Usul."

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17d

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17d

Consider the relationship between faith and power. Are they mutually exclusive when each depends upon the other?

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18d

I tell you we are a marvel and my memories leave no doubt of this.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18d

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18d

The human body is composed of some seventy per cent water by weight. A dead man, surely, no longer requires that water.

Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19d

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19d

Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19d

You see, my climate demands a special attitude towards water. You are aware of water at all times. You waste nothing that contains moisture.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19d

Some days it's melange; some days it's bitter dirt.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20d

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20d

"You, Paul Atreides, descendant of kings, son of a Duke, you must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned."

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20d

I remember deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20d

Corruption wears infinite disguises.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21d

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21d

And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21d

Given the right lever, you can move a planet.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21d

It is your fate, forgetfulness. All of the old lessons of life, you lose and gain and lose and gain again.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22d

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22d

No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. If it tastes bitter, spit it out.

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22d

He will not be found, yet all men will find him.

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