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Reminded of The Jaunt here

“How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How can you tell what's ruthless unless you've plumbed the depths of both cruelty and kindness? You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach."

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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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“Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”

“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.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.”

“If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he’d peck at it.”

“There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

“One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.”

“I’d sooner you never had to kill . . . But if the need arises, you do it however you can – tip or edge.”