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The wise come into their majority out in the world, amid the muck and pain of living.
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”
― Dune
― Dune
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Dune
― Dune
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