Quotes from the Imagination

What is written matters...

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Vengeance is as difficult to define as it is to deny.

Griffin Harkonnen, letter to Valya

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On my own planet, I make my own rules. And I have many planets.

Josef Venport, Venhold internal memo

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History is best left in the past, so that legends do not interfere with our daily lives.

Roderick Corrino, private memo to the Emperor

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Even altruism has business implications.

Josef Venport, VenHold internal memo

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Superstitious fears are childish, a measure of ignorance and gullibility. Sometimes, however, this fears are well-founded.

Suk Medical School records, Analysis of Stresses on the Human Psyche

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Sadly, I must admit to myself that I am the pinnacle of my bloodline. All my descendants are disappointments, despite the advantage of their breeding.

General Agamemnon, New Memoirs

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Every noble family has its dark secrets.

Reverend Mother Raquea Berto-Anirul, Sisterhood records

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Looking backward may seem a simpler exercise than looking forward, but it can be more painful.

Orenna Corrino, the Virgin Empress, private diary

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Life! If only we could revisit our pasts and make wiser choices.

Anonymous lament

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Practice can take a student only so far. To truly advance, he must experience the real thing.

Gilbertus Albans, Mentat manual

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A storm in the desert leaves many scars and erases many others.

A saying of the Freemen of Arrakis

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One can draw maps of planets and continents with extreme accuracy, but the map of a life contains unchartable terrain.

Abulard Harkonnen, Memoirs from Lankiveil

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Adaptability is the essence of survival.

From the Azhar Book

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Slavery can take many forms. Some are overt, while others are discreet. All are reprehensible.

Vorian Atreides, The Legacy Journals, Kepler period

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History may remember me with awe, terror, or hatred. I don't care, so long as I am not forgotten.

General Agamemnon, New Memoirs

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A quiet observer may learn countless secrets, but I prefer to be an active participant.

Erasmus, secret laboratory notebooks

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Whether you see mankind's future as light or dark depends upon how you filter the flow of data streaming back to you.

Norma Cenva