“She asked me to tell her what it is to rule,” Paul said. “And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.” She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. “She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.”
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“Paul shrugged. “Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn’t speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn’t it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don’t hear just with your ears. And I said that’s what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life.” Hawat chuckled. “How’d that sit with her?” “I think she got mad. She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
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“trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.
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“The tribal commander must lose no face among those who should obey him. Paul”
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“You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.”
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“To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”
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“It’d be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.”
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“My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.”
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“But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.”
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“Pride overcame Paul's fear. "You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal?" he demanded.
"Let us say I suggest you may be human," she said. "Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me.”
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“That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.”
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“His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.”
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