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Most important rule: don't drink and play chess!

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.” - Dune

“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.” - Dune Messiah

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.” - Children of Dune

“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.” - God Emperor of Dune

“There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening—first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him: “It is obvious! The nose causes the tail!" - Heretics of Dune

“People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.” - Chapterhouse: Dune


...Nothing exists beyond Chapterhouse