"The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual." -- Leto II
"Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden 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 shall 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." -- Ghanima, reciting the Sisterhood's Credo #DailyDune
"In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness." -- Duncan, as mentat #DailyDune
"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." -- The Azhar Book; Shamra I:4 #DailyDune
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror." -- Bene Gesserit saying #DailyDune
I haven't been able to watch Blues games legally in six seasons for this reason. It's the principle of the thing. There is no one package that gives me the ability to watch all 1300+ regular season games, including my local team. There could be, but NHL allows and/or encourages this mob tactic behavior. #stlblues #nhl
Very interesting. For anyone angry about this deal and thinks it's the RSN extortion model by another name, read this. TL;DR - you're right, it is. Bad for fans, bad for the league, but possibly makes owners more money. grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_9b8d…
"We say of Muad'dib that he has gone on a journey into that land where we walk without footprints." -- Preamble to the Qizarate Creed #DailyDune
"To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything." -- Hayt, quoting Zensunni #DailyDune
"Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous." -- Alia #DailyDune
"Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage." -- Paul #DailyDune
"Paul exhaled with the enraptured pilgrims. He nodded. Part of the veil began to lift from him. Absorbed in the bliss of a vision, he had forgotten that each vision belonged to all those who were still on-the-way, still to become. In the vision, one passed through a darkness, unable to distinguish reality from insubstantial accident. One hungered for absolutes which could never be. Hungering, one lost the present." #DailyDune
"In worlds, we perish. In the Power, we survive." -- song of Alia's spice trance #DailyDune
"The future had become a muddy stream, clogged with prophets." -- Edric #DailyDune
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual." -- Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan #DailyDune
"…removal of all limitations meant removal of all points of reference. In the landscape of a myth he could not orient himself and say: 'I am I because I am here.'" -- Paul #DailyDune
"Full moon calls thee - Shai-Hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round - Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground." -- Fremen funeral ceremony chant #DailyDune #Slayer
"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 me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -- Litany against fear #DailyDune
"I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land." -- Gurney #DailyDune