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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: x.com/dunequotebot By: @jasonweiser.com

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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
One of us had to accept the agony, and he was always the stronger.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy [...] Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die!
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent. It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hope clouds observation.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sacred! As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end. It all depends upon where the observer is standing.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The people in the name of Muad'dib! They make love in my name, are born in my name—cross the street in my name. A roof beam cannot be raised in the lowliest hovel of far Gangishree without invoking the blessing of Muad'dib!
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
[They] had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it & then only under conditions that increase the reluctance
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous!
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Another Festival so soon?' the Lord Leto asked. 'It has been ten years,' the majordomo said. Do you think by this exchange that the Lord Leto betrays an ignorance of time's passage?
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it?
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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 · 16/05/2026
Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"He told you that completion equals death!" The Preacher shouted. "Absolute prediction is completion...is death!"
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
When law and religious duty are one, your selfdom encloses the Universe.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to cooperate.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The powerful want a 'safe line of investigations,' which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Muad'Dib set himself the task of integrating genetic memory into ongoing evaluation. Thus did he break through Time's veils, making a single thing of the future and the past.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Not knowing what you said, you said it.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
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