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-Melange is the financial crux of CHOAM activities.  Without this spice,
-Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers could not perform feats of observation and
-human control, Guild Navigators could not see safe pathways across space,
-and billions of Imperial citizens would die of addictive withdrawal.
-Any simpleton knows that such dependence upon a single commodity
-leads to abuse.  We are all at risk.
-
-  -- CHOAM Economic Analysis of Materiel Flow Patterns
-%
-We are generalists.  You can't draw neat
-lines around planetwide problems.
-Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
-
-  -- PARDOT KYNES, Treatise on the Environmental Recovery
-     of Post-Holocaust Salusa Secundus
-%
-Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
-
-  -- Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad,
-     found in the Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-Spacing Guild:   one leg of the political tripod maintaining the Great 
-Convention.  The Guild was the second mental-physical training school
-(see Bene Gesserit) after the Butlerian Jihad.  The Guild monopoly on
-space travel and transport and upon international banking is taken as
-the beginning point of the Imperial Calendar.
-
-  -- Terminology of the Imperium
-%
-The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
-
-  -- PARDOT KYNES, Ecology of Bela Tegeuse, Initial Report to the Imperium
-%
-One observes the survivors, and learns from them.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Teaching
-%
-The populace must think their ruler is a greater man than they,
-else why should they follow him?  Above all a leader must be a showman,
-giving his people the bread and circuses they require.
-
-  -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-N'kee:   Slow-acting poison that builds up in the adrenal glands; one of the 
-most insidious toxins permitted under the accords of Guild Peace and the 
-restrictions of the Great Convention.  (See War of Assassins.)
-
-  -- The Assassins' Handbook
-%
-Kwisatz Haderach:  "Shortening of the Way."  This is the label applied by
-the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution:
-a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.
-
-  -- Terminology of the Imperium
-%
-In response to the strict Butlerian taboo against machines that perform mental 
-functions, a number of schools developed enhanced human beings to subsume most 
-of the functions formerly performed by computers.  Some of the key schools 
-arising out of the Jihad include the Bene Gesserit, with their intense mental 
-and physical training, the Spacing Guild, with the prescient ability to find a 
-safe path through foldspace, and the Mentats, whose computerlike minds are 
-capable of extraordinary acts of reasoning.
-
-  -- Ikbhan's Treatise on the Mind, Volume I
-%
-The paintbrush of history has depicted Abulurd Harkonnen in a most unfavorable 
-light.  Judged by the standards of his older half brother, Baron Vladimir, and 
-his own children Glossu Rabban and Feyd-Rautha Rabban, Abulurd was a different 
-sort of man entirely.  We must, however, assess the frequent descriptions of 
-his weakness, incompetence, and foolhardy decisions in light of the ultimate 
-failure of House Harkonnen.  Though exiled to Lankiveil and stripped of any 
-real power, Abulurd secured a victory unmatched by anyone else in his extended 
-family:  He learned how to be happy with his life.
-
-  -- Landsraad Encyclopedia of Great Houses, post-Jihad edition
-%
-Four things cannot be hidden -- Love, smoke, a pillar of fire,
-and a man striding across the open bled.
-
-  -- Fremen Wisdom
-%
-Who can know whether Ix has gone too far?  They hide their facilities,
-keep their workers enslaved, and claim the right of secrecy.
-Under such circumstances, how can they not be tempted to step
-beyond the restrictions of the Butlerian Jihad?
-
-  -- COUNT ILBAN RICHESE, third appeal to the Landsraad
-%
-There are weapons you cannot hold in your hand.
-You can only hold them in your mind.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Teaching
-%
-The basic rule is this:   Never support weakness; always support strength.
-
-  -- The Bene Gesserit Azhar Book, Compilation of Great Secrets
-%
-Many elements of the Imperium believe they hold the ultimate power:  the 
-Spacing Guild with their monopoly on interstellar travel, CHOAM with its 
-economic stranglehold, the Bene Gesserit with their secrets, the Mentats with 
-their control of mental processes, House Corrino with their throne, the Great 
-and Minor Houses of the Landsraad with their extensive holdings.  Woe to us on 
-the day that one of those factions decides to prove the point.
-
-  -- COUNT HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis
-%
-The slave concubines permitted my father under the Bene Gesserit-Guild 
-agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, but the intrigues were 
-constant and oppressive in their similarity.  We became adept, my mother and 
-sisters and I, at avoiding subtle instruments of death.
-
-  -- From "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
-%
-The working Planetologist has access to many resources, data, and projections.  
-However, his most important tools are human beings.  Only by cultivating 
-ecological literacy among the people themselves can he save an entire planet.
-
-  -- PARDOT KYNES, The Case for Bela Tegeuse
-%
-It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
-
-  -- THUFIR HAWAT, Mentat and Security Commander to House Atreides
-%
-We consider the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and 
-teachers, sources of the possible.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Analysis, Wallach IX Archives
-%
-Many inventions have selectively improved particular skills or abilities, 
-emphasizing one aspect or another.  But no achievement has ever scratched
-the complexity or adaptability of the human mind.
-
-  -- Ikbhan's Treatise on the Mind, Volume II
-%
-We must do a thing on Arrakis never before attempted for an entire planet.
-We must use man as a constructive ecological force -- inserting adapted
-terraform life:  a plant here, an animal there, a man in that place --
-to transform the water cycle, to build a new kind of landscape.
-
-  -- Report from Imperial Planetologist PARDOT KYNES,
-     directed to Padishah EMPEROR ELROOD IX (unsent)
-%
-My Father had only one real friend, I think.  That was Count Hasimir Fenring, 
-the genetic-eunuch and one of the deadliest fighters in the Imperium.
-
-  -- From "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
-%
-Blindness can take many forms other than the inability to see.
-Fanatics are often blinded in their thoughts.
-Leaders are often blinded in their hearts.
-
-  -- The Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-
-Hope can be the greatest weapon of a downtrodden people,
-or the greatest enemy of those who are about to fail.
-We must remain aware of its advantages and its limitations.
-
-  -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals
-
-%
-History allows us to see the obvious -- but unfortunately,
-not until it is too late.
-
-  -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO
-%
-Like the knowledge of your own being, the sietch forms a firm base
-from which you move out into the world and into the universe.
-
-  -- Fremen Teaching
-%
-Two hundred thirty-eight planets searched, many of only marginal habitability.  
-(See star charts attached in separate file.) Resource surveys list valuable
-raw materials.  Many of these planets deserve a second look, either for
-mineral exploitation or possible colonization.  As in previous reports,
-however, no spice found.
-
-  -- Independent scout survey, third expedition,
-     delivered to EMPEROR FONDIL CORRINO III
-%
-The Spacing Guild has worked for centuries to surround our elite Navigators 
-with mystique.  They are revered, from the lowest Pilot to the most talented 
-Steersman.  They live in tanks of spice gas, see all paths through space and 
-time, guide ships to the far reaches of the Imperium.  But no one knows the 
-human cost of becoming a Navigator.  We must keep this a secret, for if they 
-really knew the truth, they would pity us.
-
-  -- Spacing Guild Training Manual Handbook for Steersmen (Classified)
-%
-The human body is a machine, a system of organic chemicals, fluid conduits, 
-electrical impulses; a government is likewise a machine of interacting 
-societies, laws, cultures, rewards and punishments, patterns of behavior.   
-Ultimately, the universe itself is a machine, planets around suns, stars 
-gathered into clusters, clusters and other suns forming entire galaxies . . . . 
- Our job is to keep the machinery functioning.
-
-  -- Suk Inner School, Primary Doctrine
-%
-The leaders of the Butlerian Jihad did not adequately define artificial 
-intelligence, failing to foresee all possibilities of an imaginative society.  
-Therefore, we have substantial gray areas in which to maneuver.
-
-  -- Confidential Ixian Legal Opinion
-%
-No outsider has ever seen a Tleilaxu female and lived to tell about it.  
-Considering the Tleilaxu penchant for genetic manipulation -- see, e.g., 
-related memos on clones and gholas -- this simple observation raises a
-wealth of additional questions.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Analysis
-%
-Like many culinary delicacies, revenge is a dish best savored slowly,
-after long and delicate preparation.
-
-  -- EMPEROR ELROOD IX, Deathbed Insights
-%
-In the Imperium there exists the "principle of the individual," noble but 
-rarely utilized, whereby a person who violates a written law in a situation
-of extreme peril or need can request a special session of the court of 
-jurisdiction in order to explain and support the necessity of his actions.
-A number of legal procedures derive from this principle, among them the Drey 
-Jury, the Blind Tribunal, and the Trial by Forfeiture.
-
-  -- Law of the Imperium:  Commentaries
-%
-Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty.  Allegiance that must be 
-purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst 
-possible moment.  Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger 
-than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
-
-  -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-Only God can make living, sentient creatures.
-
-  -- The Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-Without a goal, a life is nothing.  Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entire 
-life, an all-consuming passion.  But once that goal is achieved, what then?  
-Oh, poor man, what then?
-
-  -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals
-%
-History has seldom been good to those who must be punished.
-Bene Gesserit punishments cannot be forgotten.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Dictum
-%
-How simple things were when our Messiah was only a dream.
-
-  -- STILGAR, Naib of Sietch Tabr
-%
-The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they seek to hide their 
-doubts and fears.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap.
-Humans do not thread their way through a maze; they scan a vast
-horizon filled with unique opportunities.
-
-  -- The Spacing Guild Handbook
-%
-Perceptions rule the universe.
-  -- Bene Gesserit Saying
-%
-You of fearful heart, be strong and fear not.  Behold, your God will come with 
-a vengeance; He will come and save you from the worshipers of machines.
-
-  -- The Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool.
-And if man is but a pebble, then
-all his works can be no more.
-
-  -- Zensunni Saying
-%
-Among the responsibilities of command is the necessity to punish . . .
-but only when the victim demands it.
-
-  -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership in a Galactic Imperium,
-     12th Edition
-%
-Speak the truth.  That is always much easier,
-and is often the most powerful argument.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-Imperfections, if viewed in the proper light, can be extremely valuable.
-The Great Schools, with their incessant questing for perfection, often
-find this postulate difficult to understand, until it is proven to them
-that nothing in the universe is random.
-
-  -- From The Philosophies of Old Terra, one of the recovered manuscripts
-%
-One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled.
-You are a husbandman.  This demands, at times, a selfless act of
-love which may be amusing only to those you rule.
-
-  -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-Machine-vaccine principle:  Every technological device contains
-within it the tools of its opposite, and of its own destruction.
-
-  -- GIAN KANA, Imperial Patent Czar
-%
-The ultimate question:  Why does life exist?
-The answer:  For life's sake.
-
-  -- ANONYMOUS, thought to be of Zensunni origin
-%
-The surest way to keep a secret is to make
-people believe they already know the answer.
-
-  -- Ancient Fremen Wisdom
-%
-Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love.  The capacity for either one is the 
-capacity for its opposite.
-
-  -- Cautionary Instructions for the Sisterhood, Bene Gesserit Archives, Wallach IX
-%
-I must rule with eye and claw -- as the hawk among lesser birds.
-
-  -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, The Atreides Assertion
-%
-In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or 
-devolving.  What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and --
-let us hope -- we remember how to change back.
-
-  -- AMBASSADOR CAMMAR PILRU, Dispatches in Defense of Ix
-%
-We all live in the shadows of our predecessors for a time.  But we who 
-determine the fate of planets eventually reach the point at which we
-become not the shadows, but the light itself.
-
-  -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership
-%
-History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward 
-curve.  There are flat periods, upward spurts, and even reversals.
-
-  -- Technology of the Imperium, 532nd Edition
-%
-Memory and History are two sides of the same coin.  In time, however, History 
-tends to slant itself toward a favorable impression of events, while Memory is 
-doomed to preserve the worst aspects.
-
-  -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals
-%
-What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
-
-  -- The Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-No one but a Tleilaxu may set foot in Bandalong, holiest city of the Bene 
-Tleilax, for it is fanatically guarded hallowed ground, purified by their God.
-
-  -- Diplomacy in the Imperium, a Landsraad publication
-%
-Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon.  A planet's
-life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric.  Vegetation and animal changes
-will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate.
-As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling
-influences in their own right -- and we will have to deal with them, too.
-Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three percent of the energy
-surface -- only three percent -- to tip the entire structure over into our
-self-sustaining system.
-
-  -- PARDOT KYNES, Arrakis Dreams
-%
-Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way.
-No one makes it through life without paying, in one fashion or another.
-
-  -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals
-%
-Innovations seem to have a life and a sentience of their own.  When conditions 
-are right, a radical new idea -- a paradigm shift -- may appear simultaneously 
-from many minds at once.  Or it may remain secret in the thoughts of one man 
-for years, decades, centuries . . . until someone else thinks of the same 
-thing.  How many brilliant discoveries die stillborn, or lie dormant,
-never to be embraced by the Imperium as a whole?
-
-  -- OMBUDSMEN OF RICHESE, Rebuttal to the Landsraad, The True Domain
-     of the Intellect -- Private Property, or Resources for the Galaxy?
-%
-They demonstrate subtle, highly effective skills in the aligned arts of 
-observation and data collection.  Information is their stock-in-trade.
-
-  -- Imperial Report on the Bene Gesserit, used for tutoring purposes
-%
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
-
-  -- Ancient Fremen Wisdom
-%
-Storms beget storms.  Rage begets rage.
-Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.
-
-  -- Bene Gesserit Conundrum
-%
-Tio Holtzman was one of the most productive Ixian inventors on record.
-He often went on creative binges, locking himself up for months on end
-so that he could work without interruption.  Sometimes upon emerging he
-required hospitalization, and there were constant concerns over his
-sanity and well-being.  Holtzman died young -- barely past thirty Standard
-Years -- but the results of his efforts changed the galaxy forever.
-
-  -- Biographical Capsules, an Imperial filmbook
-%
-In the long history of our House, we have been constantly shadowed by 
-Misfortune, as if we were its prey.  One might almost believe the curse
-of Atreus from ancient Greek times on Old Terra.
-
-  -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, from a speech to his generals
-%
-Truth is a chameleon.
-
-  -- Zensunni Aphorism
-%
-In a Trial by Forfeiture, the normal rules of evidence do not apply.  There are 
-no disclosure requirements that evidence be revealed to the opposition or to 
-the magistrates prior to the court proceedings.  This places the person with 
-secret knowledge in a uniquely powerful position -- commensurate with the 
-extreme risk he takes.
-
-  -- Rogan's Rules of Evidence, 3rd Edition
-%
-The written Law of the Imperium cannot be changed, no matter which Great House 
-holds dominion or which Emperor sits on the Golden Lion Throne.  The documents 
-of the Imperial Constitution have been established for thousands of years.  
-This is not to say that each regime is legally identical; the variations stem 
-from subtleties of interpretation and from microscopic loopholes that become 
-large enough to drive a Heighliner through.
-
-  -- Law of the Imperium:  Commentaries and Rebuttals
-%
-The worst sort of alliances are those which weaken us.  Worse still is
-when an Emperor fails to recognize such an alliance for what it is.
-
-  -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership
-%
-The worst sort of protection is confidence.  The best defense is suspicion.
-
-  -- HASIMIR FENRING
-%
-As seen from orbit, the world of Ix is pristine and placid.  But beneath
-its surface, immense projects are undertaken and great works are achieved.
-In this way, our planet is a metaphor for the Imperium itself.
-
-  -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, The Secret Workings of Ix
-%
-When faced with necessary actions, there are always choices.  So long as the 
-job gets done.
-
-  -- COUNT HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis
-%
-In plotting any course of revenge, one must savor the anticipation phase
-and all its moments, for the actual execution often differs widely from the 
-original plan.
-
-  -- HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis
-%
-What matters more, the form of justice or the actual outcome?  No matter how a 
-court may dissect the evidence, the foundation of genuine truth remains 
-unblemished.  Unfortunately for many of the accused, such genuine truth is 
-often known only to the victim and the perpetrator.  All others must make up 
-their own minds.
-
-  -- Landsraad Law, codicils and analyses
-%
-We do what we must.  Friendship and loyalty be damned.  We do what we must!
-
-  -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES,
-her personal journals
-%
-All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a 
-moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.
-
-  -- Fremen Saying
-%
-In the final analysis, the legendary event called Leto's Gambit became the 
-basis of the young Duke Atreides's immense popularity.  He successfully 
-projected himself as a shining beacon of honor in a galactic sea of darkness.  
-To many members of the Landsraad, Leto's honesty and naivete became a symbol of 
-honor that shamed many of the Great and Minor Houses to alter their behavior 
-toward each other . . . for a short time, at least, until familiar old patterns 
-reemerged.
-
-  -- Origins of House Atreides:  Seeds of the Future in the Galactic Imperium,
-     by Bronso of Ix
-%
-The universe contains untapped and heretofore unimagined energy sources.
-They are before your very eyes, yet you cannot see them.
-They are in your mind, yet you cannot think them.  But I can!
-
-  -- TIO HOLTZMAN, Collected Lectures
-%
-Only fools leave witnesses.
-
-  -- HASIMIR FENRING
-%
-Progress and profit require a substantial investment in personnel, equipment, 
-and capital funding.  However, the resource most often overlooked, yet which 
-can often provide the greatest payoff, is an investment in time.
-
-  -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, The Secret Workings of Ix
-%
-A world is supported by four things:  the teaming of the wise, the justice
-of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave.
-But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
-
-  -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership
-%
-A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change.
-Creativity keeps the creator alive.
-
-  -- FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes
-%