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+Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Coda
+%
+When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their
+bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even
+while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet,
+conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil
+and violence.
+
+ -- Leto II, the God Emperor
+%
+The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can
+terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such
+demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes
+and throws our old ideas away.
+
+ -- The Zensufi Master
+%
+Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies.
+A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crises.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Coda
+%
+We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Coda
+%
+You cannot know history unless you know how leaders move with its currents.
+Every leader requires outsiders to perpetuate his leadership. Examine my
+career: I was leader and outsider. Do not assume I merely created a
+Church-State. That was my function as leader and I copied historical models.
+Barbaric arts of my time reveal me as outsider. Favorite poetry: epics.
+Popular dramatic ideal: heroism. Dances: wildly abandoned.
+Stimulants to make people sense what I took from them. What did I take?
+The right to choose a role in history.
+
+ -- Leto II (The Tyrant): Vether Bebe Translation
+%
+You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string.
+
+ -- The Zensunni Whip
+%
+Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.
+The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game
+whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise,
+you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play.
+Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They
+refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
+personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
+corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
+condition to which they are quickly addicted.
+
+ -- Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
+%
+The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical
+accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
+
+ -- The Bashar Teg
+%
+Corruption wears infinite disguises.
+
+ -- Tleilaxu Thu-zen
+%
+Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined
+only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles
+reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.
+
+ -- Mentat Text One (decto)
+%
+Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them
+intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that
+you become totally ignorant.
+
+ -- Mentat Text Two (dicto)
+%
+Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses,
+hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements made in search of
+personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an
+unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question! We break that commandment
+daily in the harnessing of human imagination to our deepest creativity.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Credo
+%
+Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine
+point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job
+security.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Coda
+%
+We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of
+consequences -- the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words
+and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever
+touched.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Panoplia Propheticus
+%
+They say Mother Superior can disregard nothing -- a meaningless aphorism
+until you grasp its other significance: I am the servant of all my Sisters.
+They watch their servant with critical eyes. I cannot spend too much time on
+generalities nor on trivia. Mother Superior must display insightful action
+else a sense of disquiet penetrates to the farthest corners of our order.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+All states are abstractions.
+
+ -- Octun Politicus, BG Archives
+%
+Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than
+dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift
+them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
+
+ -- Alma Mavis Taraza
+%
+To know a thing well, know its limits.
+Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
+ -- The Amtal Rule
+
+Do not depend only on theory if your life is at stake.
+ -- Bene Gesserit Commentary
+%
+Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous
+form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn.
+The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with
+dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
+
+ -- Mentat Fixe (adacto)
+%
+Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes
+even though a need is clearly seen.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is
+apparent.
+
+ -- Leto II (The Tyrant)
+%
+A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful
+instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief
+that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth.
+In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.
+
+ -- The Coda
+%
+The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it
+must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect.
+Our plugs don't fit.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen.
+More questions!
+
+ -- Mentat Zensufi
+%
+Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating
+disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the
+worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine,
+there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.
+
+ -- The Coda
+%
+Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time.
+Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends
+to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness.
+If it tastes bitter, spit it out.
+That's what our earliest ancestors did.
+
+ -- The Coda
+%
+Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them.
+Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles)
+are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept
+you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming
+a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously manmade.
+Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where
+you stand, but more important, must recognize who whispers in your ear.
+
+ -- Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching
+%
+We walk a delicate line, perpetuating Atreides (Siona) genes in our population
+because that hides us from prescience. We carry the Kwisatz Haderach in that
+bag! Willfulness created Muad'Dib. Prophets make predictions come true!
+Will we ever again dare ignore our Tao sense and cater to a culture that hates
+chance and begs for prophecy?
+
+ -- Archival Summary (adixto)
+%
+We witness a passing phase of eternity. Important things happen but some
+people never notice. Accidents intervene. You are not present at episodes.
+You depend on reports. And people shutter their minds. What good are reports?
+ History in a news account? Preselected at an editorial conference, digested
+and excreted by prejudice? Accounts you need seldom come from those who make
+history. Diaries, memoirs and autobiographies are subjective forms of special
+pleading. Archives are crammed with such suspect stuff.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags
+you to doom. (HM rule) Bene Gesserit Commentary: Who judges?
+
+ -- The Dortujla Record
+%
+Ish yara al-ahdab hadbat-u.
+(A hunchback does not see his own hunch. -- Folk Saying.)
+
+Bene Gesserit Commentary: The hunch may be seen with
+the aid of mirrors but mirrors may show the whole being.
+
+ -- The Bashar Teg
+%
+Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed
+for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals.
+Here is the secret meaning of Free Will.
+
+ -- Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching
+%
+Our household god is this thing we carry forward generation after generation:
+our message for humankind if it matures. The closest thing we have to a
+household goddess is a failed Reverend Mother -- Chenoeh there in her niche.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+When are the witches to be trusted? Never! The dark side of the magic
+universe belongs to the Bene Gesserit and we must reject them.
+
+ -- Tylwyth Waff, Master of Masters
+%
+Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
+Seek discipline and find your liberty.
+
+ -- The Coda
+%
+Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes.
+Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible)
+choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in
+an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
+
+ -- Zensunni koan
+%
+Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet
+explain nothing.
+
+ -- The Zensunni Whip
+%
+Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.
+
+ -- The Bashar Teg
+%
+Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent.
+It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.
+
+ -- Bene Gesserit Advice to Postulants
+%
+Looked at one way, the universe is Brownian movement, nothing predictable at
+the elemental level. Muad'Dib and his Tyrant son closed the cloud chamber
+where movement occurred.
+
+ -- Stories from Gammu
+%
+What do Holy Accidents teach? Be resilient. Be strong.
+Be ready for change, for the new. Gather many experiences
+and judge them by the steadfast nature of our faith.
+
+ -- Tleilaxu Doctrine
+%
+When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands,
+that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises.
+When we create, there are always other forces at work.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
+
+ -- Darwi Odrade
+%
+Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
+
+ -- The Zensunni Whip
+%