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Dune - Wikiquote - 0 views

  • Muad'Dib
  • Arrakis
  • Irulan
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  • Hawat
  • Gurney Halleck
  • Thufir Hawat
  • Paul Atreides
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences. Pardot Kynes (voice heard by his son during a dying hallucination)
  • Atreides
  • Bene Gesserit
  • Litany Against Fear
  • Gaius Helen Mohiam
  • Gom Jabbar
  • Kwisatz Haderach
  • Harkonnen
  • Mentat
  • Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. Duke Leto Atreides
  • Leto Atreides
  • Fremen
  • Mahdi
  • Liet-Kynes
  • The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. from Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us. Jessica speaking to Thufir Hawat
  • Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles. Victim of your folly. Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from Songs of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." from Arrakis Awakening by the Princess Irulan
  • What do you despise? By this you are truly known. from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan.
  • Esmar Tuek
  • Staban Tuek
  • baliset
  • Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained. Pardot Kynes
  • Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. The last thought of Liet Kynes before he died
  • Prophecy and prescience — How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "wave form" (as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? Private Reflections on Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise. Stilgar to Jessica
  • The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too, was action with its consequences. Said of Paul Muad'Dib
  • The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
  • Feyd-Rautha
  • Thufir Hawat
  • Chani
  • Jessica
  • Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
  • a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.
  • It occurred to Paul then that he had seen his own dead body along countless reaches of the time web, but never once had he seen his moment of death.
  • The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
  • Emperor Shaddam IV
  • Hayt, the ghola
  • the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
  • It was a time of sorceresses whose powers were real. The measure of them is seen in the fact they never boasted how they grasped the firebrand.
  • Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
  • Toure Bomoko
  • Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
  • Mahdi Spirit Cult
  • Tleilaxu
  • Godbuk
  • Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.
  • behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
  • Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
  • Pardot Kynes
  • There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves.
  • Stilgar
  • He is the fool saint, The golden stranger living forever On the edge of reason. Let your guard fall and he is there! The Ghola's Hymn
  • If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
  • Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
  • Tleilaxu
  • Bijaz
  • Often I must speak other than I think. That is called diplomacy.
  • Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.
  • Edric
  • palatinate
  • You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
  • Scytale
  • 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.
  • Korba
  • Sardaukar
  • Lasbeams
  • I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void.
  • I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
  • Harq al-Ada
  • Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating
  • Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
  • Arrakeen
  • the Kwisatz Haderach cannot forget
  • Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
  • Leto Atreides
  • 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.
  • gestalten
  • Babel Problem
  • achieving wrong combinations from accurate information
  • Kalima
  • Shuloch
  • inner outrage against the complacently powerful
  • humans can endure only in a fraternity of social justice.
  • Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" But we question. We break that commandment as a matter of course.
  • The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity.
  • Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap.
  • Mahdinate
  • there exists no intransigent opposites except in the beliefs of men
  • Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives.
  • Veuillot
  • Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end. It all depends upon where the observer is standing.
  • Not knowing what you said, you said it.
  • 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.
  • It is said that the only fear we cannot correct is the fear of our own mistakes.
  • Often there's no need to tear off an arm to remove a splinter.
  • Ghanima
  • ghafla
Sunny Jackson

Shrug of God - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

  • they may have a reason for their ambiguity
  • the question will be answered
  • the author wants to leave their options open for addressing it at some point in the future
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  • The fans are supposed to come up with their own answers.
  • debate amongst the fandom
  • doesn't remember anymore
  • ambiguity feels realistic
  • The creators firmly believe in the Death of the Author theory and don't feel their interpretations are any more valid than anyone else's.
  • The question is about some detail completely tangential to the story, which the author had never considered.
  • the writer can't answer
  • The writer is just making it up as they go
Sunny Jackson

Book Quotes: What are the best quotes from books? - Quora - 0 views

  • "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."Robert Heinlein - Time Enough for Love
  • "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."Philip K. Dick - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  • So we dream on.  Thus we invent our lives. 
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  • We invent what we love and what we fear. 
  • We dream on and on
  • And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… 
  • You have to keep passing the open windows
  • Show me a hero and I'll write a tragedy.
Sunny Jackson

Bundlr - Expanded Horizons - 0 views

  • Every day, she needs to slay that dragon again.
  • Conjuring Shadows
  • It starts with the questions
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  • Unfit to Eat
  • the dragon had claws, teeth like steel blades, fire burning in its belly, and she had only her father’s broken sword
  • would she still be there in darkness
  • Blue Dahlia
  • Skinchanger Tales
  • Angel of Light
  • These things, she already knows
  • Tell her rather how to keep that dragon dead— how to heal the wounds that never start to bleed.
  • Njàbò
  • The Chartreuse Monster
  • Night Vaulting
  • Updates Available
  • The Second Mrs. Sharma
  • Princess of the Stars
  • Desiree and Me
  • Memories of My Sister
  • Prikaza
  • The Spitfire
  • An Eerie Encounter
  • Mortal Woman
  • Asphodel Meadows
  • And the Psychopomp Followed the Lyre
  • Sleeping Beauty Speaks Out
  • From Blood and Ash and Embers
  • The Overflow
  • The Mirror of Cualemec
  • Distant Deeps or Skies
  • Sinking Palaces
  • Fall of Snow
  • Jaded
  • King of Sand and Stormy Seas
  • Salt expandedhorizons.net
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Memory
  • A Handful of Earth
  • Brolga Dreaming
  • Greenwich Mean Time Plus
  • Grace of Europa
  • Dragon Trauma
Sunny Jackson

Frank Herbert - Wikiquote - 0 views

  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
  • Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
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  • The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
  • You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe.
  • I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.
  • Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
  • That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
Sunny Jackson

Lie to Me - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

  • Cal is utterly brilliant. He also has an awkward body language and very little regards to things like tact and the like, and the first line of his second book was, ‘Let me be clear. I understand very little, least of all the people close to me.’
  • Briefcase Full of Money: What Dr. Lightman purported to be trying to hide when he tested Ria Torres at the airport. After he and Dr. Foster end their hiring pitch, they leave behind the briefcase; when Ria calls them on the "forgotten" item, Lightman says nonchalantly that's her hiring bonus.
  • Last Name Basis: Characters address each other by last name more often than first name.
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  • Lie Detector: Dr. Lightman points out all the ways polygraphs suck. One of them involves getting a guy to fail the control questions by use of a woman in a sexy outfit.
  • The daughter specifically asks Dr. Lightman not to do any "covert" lie detection. She neglected to include "overt" lie detection as well.
  • Loophole Abuse
  • Cal and Ria's techniques of information gathering waltz into the distinctly unusual.
  • Cal has admitted to Emily that he loves Gillian.
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