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diff --git a/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/house-harkonnen b/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/house-harkonnen new file mode 100644 index 0000000..090df36 --- /dev/null +++ b/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/house-harkonnen @@ -0,0 +1,577 @@ +Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. +A man unwilling to take risk is doomed +never to learn, never to grow, never to live. + + -- PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet +% +Behold, O Man, you can create life. You can destroy life. +But, lo, you have no choice but to experience life. +And therein lies both your greatest strength and +your greatest weakness. + + -- Orange Catholic Bible, Book of Kimla Septima, 5:3 +% +Secrets are an important aspect of power. +The effective leader spreads them in +order to keep men in line. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership + in a Galactic Imperium, Twelfth Edition +% +In the days of Old Terra there were experts in poisons, deviously clever +persons who dealt in what were known as "the powders of inheritance." + + -- Filmbook excerpt, Royal Library of Kaitain +% +It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all +the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each +hour, each moment, there is change. + + -- Panoplia Propheticus of the Bene Gesserit +% +Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Arrakis Lectures +% +Before us, all methods of learning were tainted by instinct. Before us, +instinct-ridden researchers possessed a limited attention span -- often no +longer than a single lifetime. Projects stretching across fifty or more +generations never occurred to them. The concept of total muscle/nerve training +had not entered their awareness. We learned how to learn. + + -- Bene Gesserit Azhar Book +% +"Xuttuh" is a word that means many things. Every Bene Tleilax knows it was the +name of the first Master. But just as that man was more than a mere mortal, so +there are depths and complexities in the appellation. Depending upon tone and +vocal inflection, "Xuttuh" can mean "hello" or "blessings be upon you." Or it +can constitute a prayer encompassed in a single word, as a devotee prepares to +die for the Great Belief. For such reasons, we have chosen this as our new +name for the conquered planet formerly known as Ix. + + -- Tleilaxu Training Disk +% +A center for the coordination of rebellion can be mobile; it does not need to +be a permanent place where people meet. + + -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall + of Unjust Governments +% +It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning +desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the +sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved worldview +centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community +is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these +desert dwellers seem brutish . . . just as outsiders appear to them. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, The People of Arrakis +% +An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men +bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty. Adorn your Grand Empire with +beauty, with culture. + + -- From a speech by CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO: L'Institut de Kaitain Archives +% +Military victories are meaningless unless they reflect the wishes +of the populace. An Emperor exists only to clarify those wishes. +He executes the popular will, or his time is short. + + -- Principium, Imperial Leadership Academy +% +Organizational structure is crucial to the success of a movement. +It is, as well, a prime target for attack. + + -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall + of Unjust Governments +% +The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what +they think it is. + + -- SIGAN VISEE, First Head Instructor, Guild Navigator School +% +War is a form of organic behavior. The army is a means of survival for the +all-male group. The all-female group, on the other hand, is traditionally +religion-oriented. They are the keepers of sacred mysteries. + + -- Bene Gesserit Teaching +% +What is this Love that so many speak of with such apparent familiarity? +Do they truly comprehend how unattainable it is? Are there not as many +definitions of Love as there are stars in the universe? + + -- The Bene Gesserit Question Book +% +When you ask a question, do you truly want to know the answer, or are you +merely flaunting your power? + + -- DMITRI HARKONNEN, Notes to My Sons +% +Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. + + -- Orange Catholic Bible +% +The strictest limits are self-imposed. + + -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster +% +Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along +a path that you cannot explain anymore. + + -- Mentat Admonition +% +Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. + + -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership +% +The desert is a surgeon cutting away the skin to expose what is underneath. + + -- Fremen Saying +% +The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. + + -- Bene Gesserit Precept +% +Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the +encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden +assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made +in search of personal power . . . all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. +And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" +But we do anyway. We break that commandment as a matter of course. +The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, +the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity. + + -- Credo of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood +% +Humiliation is a thing never forgotten. + + -- REBEC of Ginaz +% +Learn to recognize the future the way a Steersman identifies +guiding stars and corrects the course of his vessel. +Learn from the past; never use it as an anchor. + + -- SIGAN VISEE, First Head Instructor, Guild Navigator School +% +The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge. + + -- MOTHER SUPERIOR RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL: Oratory Against Fear +% +Thinking, and the methods by which thoughts are communicated, +inevitably create a system permeated by illusions. + + -- Zensunni Teaching +% +There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything. + + -- Basic Bene Gesserit Dictum +% +Immobility is often mistaken for peace. + + -- EMPEROR ELROOD CORRINO IX +% +To learn about this universe, one must embark on a course of discovery where +real dangers exist. Education cannot impart this discovery; it is not a thing +to be taught and used or put away. It has no goals. In our universe, we +consider goals to be end products, and they are deadly if one becomes fixated +on them. + + -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster +% +Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe +what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. + + -- CAEDMON ERB, Politics and Reality +% +It is the Atreides way to be examples of honor for our children, +so that they may be the same for their own progeny. + + -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES, First Speech to the Caladan Assembly +% +It is true that one may become rich through practicing evil, but the power of +Truth and Justice is that they endure . . . and that a man can say of them, +"They are a heritage from my father." + + -- Fifth Dynasty (Old Terra) calendar: The Wisdom of Ptahhotep +% +A man who persists in stalking game in a place where there is none may wait +forever without finding any success. Persistence in search is not enough. + + -- Zensunni Wisdom of the Wanderings +% +The effective ruler punishes opposition while rewarding assistance; he shifts +his forces in random fashion; he conceals major elements of his power; he sets +up a rhythm of counter movement that keeps opponents off balance. + + -- WESTHEIMER ATREIDES, Elements of Leadership +% +The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has +its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. +We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we +refuse to change. + + -- Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register +% +The increasing variety and abundance of life itself vastly multiplies the +number of niches available for life. The resulting system is a web of makers +and users, eaters and eaten, collaborators and competitors. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Report to Emperor Shaddam IV +% +To know what one ought to do is not enough. + + -- PRINCE RHOMBUR VERNIUS +% +Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearances. +Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality. + + -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, The Rudiments of Power +% +If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, +no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. + + -- LIET-KYNES, In the Footsteps of My Father +% +Water is the image of life. We came from water, adapted from its +all-encompassing presence . . . and we continue to adapt. + + -- IMPERIAL PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES +% +I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some +day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain +for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces +its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we +dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create. + + -- Bene Gesserit Benediction +% +I fought in great wars to defend the Imperium and slew many men in the +Emperor's name. I attended Landsraad functions. I toured the continents of +Caladan. I managed all the tedious business matters required to run a Great +House. And still the best of times were those I spent with my son. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +Body and mind are two phenomena, observed under different conditions, but of +one and the same ultimate reality. Body and mind are aspects of the living +being. They operate within a peculiar principle of synchronicity wherein +things happen together and behave as if they are the same . . . yet can be +conceived of as separate. + + -- Staff Medical Manual, Ginaz School +% +The Universe is a place inaccessible, unintelligible, completely absurd . . . +from which life -- especially rational life -- is estranged. There is no place +of safety, or basic principle upon which the Universe depends. There are only +transitory, masked relationships, confined within limited dimensions, and bound +for inevitable change. + + -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text +% +The Bene Gesserit tell no casual lies. Truth serves us better. + + -- BENE GESSERIT CODA +% +The man who gives in to adrenaline addiction turns against all humanity. +He turns against himself. He runs away from the workable issues of life and +admits a defeat which his own violent actions help to create. + + -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall of Unjust +Governments +% +There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +Infinity attracts us like a floodlight in the night, blinding us to the +excesses it can inflict upon the finite. + + -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text +% +Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. +It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul. + + -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering +% +It is possible to become intoxicated with rebellion for rebellion's sake. + + -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, Ecaz Memoirs +% +What is each man but a memory for those who follow? + + -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES +% +A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most +grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves. + + -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering +% +Political leaders often don't recognize the practical uses of imagination and +innovative new ideas until such forms are thrust under their noses by bloody +hands. + + -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership +% +Enemies strengthen you; allies weaken. + + -- EMPEROR ELROOD IX, Deathbed Insights +% +The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be +experienced. + + -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text +% +The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, +and the harnessing of the imagination to man's physical creativity. + + -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster +% +Nature has moved inexplicably backward and forward to produce this marvelous, +subtle Spice. One is tempted to suggest that only divine intervention could +possibly have produced a substance which in one aspect extends human life and +in another opens the inner doors of the psyche to the wonders of Time and +Creation. + + -- HIDAR FEN AJIDICA, Laboratory Notes on the Nature of Melange +% +Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even +when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, +while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them. + + -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering +% +Heaven must be the sound of running water. + + -- Fremen Saying +% +Look inside yourself and you can see the universe. + + -- Zensunni Aphorism +% +Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions, which have been +similar throughout the ages. One such condition is a permanent state of +alertness to ward off attack. Another is the rule of the autocrat. + + -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall + of Unjust Governments +% +Beneath a world -- in its rocks, its dirt and sedimentary overlays -- +there you find the planet's memory, the complete analog of its existence, +its ecological memory. + + -- PARROT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer +% +A Duke must always take control of his household, for if he does not +rule those closest to him, he cannot hope to govern a planet. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. +A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, +can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, +including our gods. + + -- REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO, Sayyadina of the Fremen +% +Challenge: Time? +Answer: A brilliant, many-faceted gem. + +Challenge: Time? +Answer: A dark stone, reflecting no visible light. + + -- Fremen wisdom, from The Riddle Game +% +It requires a desperate and lonely sort of courage to challenge the accepted +wisdom upon which social peace of mind rests. + + -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, In Defense of Change in the Face of Tradition +% +There is no such thing as a law of nature. There is only a series of laws +relating to man's practical experience with nature. These are laws of man's +activities. They change as man's activities change. + + -- PARROT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer +% +One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be +taken over by power, thus becoming its victim. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may +perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination. + + -- Mentat Objective Analysis of Human Capabilities +% +Power and deceit are tools of statecraft, yes. But remember that power deludes +the ones who wield it -- making them believe it can overcome the defects of +their ignorance. + + -- COUNT FLAMBERT MUTELLI, early speech in Landsraad Hall of Oratory +% +Never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die. + + -- Fremen Saying +% +If a man can accept his sin, he can live with it. If a man cannot accept +personal sin, he suffers unbearable consequences. + + -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text +% +The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The +willingness to learn is a choice. + + -- REBEC OF GINAZ +% +How to define the Kwisatz Haderach? The male who is everywhere simultaneously, +the only man who can truly become the greatest human of all of us, mingling +masculine and feminine ancestry with inseparable power. + + -- Bene Gesserit Azhar Book +% +You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt! + + -- Fremen Lament +% +The stone is heavy and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than +them both. + + -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES +% +Innovation and daring create heroes. Mindless adherence +to outdated rules creates only politicians. + + -- VISCOUNT HUNDRO MORITANI +% +How easily grief becomes anger, and revenge gains arguments. + + -- PADISHAH EMPEROR HASSIK III, Lament for Salusa Secundus +% +Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind me. + + -- Fremen Conundrum +% +If God wishes thee to perish, He causes thy steps to +lead thee to the place of thy demise. + + -- Cant of the Shariat +% +Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day. +Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see? + + -- VISCOUNT HUNDRO MORITANI, Response to Landsraad Court Summons +% +All technology is suspect, and must be considered potentially dangerous. + + -- BUTLERIAN JIHAD, Handbook for Our Grandchildren +% +The seats of power inevitably try to harness any new knowledge to their own +desires. But knowledge can have no fixed desires -- neither in the past nor in +the future. + + -- DMITRI HARKONNEN, Lessons for My Sons +% +The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their +doubts and fears. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +The individual is the key, the final effective unit of all biological processes. + + -- PARDOT KYNES +% +Good leadership is largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one +notices a Duke's work. That is why he must give the people something to cheer, +something to talk about, something to remember. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger +state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its +existence. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus +% +Beware the seeds you sow and the crops you reap. Do not curse God for the +punishment you inflict upon yourself. + + -- Orange Catholic Bible +% +Every man dreams of the future, though not all of us will be there to see it. + + -- TIO HOLTZMAN, Speculations on Time and Space +% +Knowledge is pitiless. + + -- Orange Catholic Bible +% +The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. +They can only be outgrown. + + -- SISTER JESSICA, private journal entry +% +Why look for meaning where there is none? +Would you follow a path you know leads nowhere? + + -- Query of the Mentat School +% +Humans must never submit to animals. + + -- Bene Gesserit Teaching +% +To keep from dying is not the same as "to live." + + -- Bene Gesserit Saying +% +We are always human and carry the whole burden of being human. + + -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES +% +No one person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. +We are all Face Dancers in our souls. + + -- Tleilaxu Secret Handbook +% +We as humans tend to make pointless demands of our universe, asking meaningless +questions. Too often we make such queries after developing an expertise within +a frame of reference which has little or no relationship to the context in +which the question is asked. + + -- Zensunni Observation +% +The ego is only a bit of consciousness swimming upon the ocean of dark things. +We are an enigma unto ourselves. + + -- The Mentat Handbook +% +The individual is shocked by the overwhelming discovery of his own mortality. +The species, however, is different. It need not die. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer +% +The man faced with a life-and-death decision must commit himself, +or he will remain caught in the pendulum. + + -- From "In My Father's House," by the Princess Irulan +% +Love is an ancient force, one that served its purpose in its day but is no +longer essential for the survival of the species. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. + + -- ABULURD HARKONNEN +% +Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. +In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. +I desire the tangible. + + -- HASIMIR FENRING, Letters from Arrakis +% +Though death will cancel it, life in this world is a glorious thing. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% |