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You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

— Frank Herbert Dune (1965)

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The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be.

Dune Genesis (1980)

No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.

Dune Genesis (1980)

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Dune Messiah (1969)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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