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Paul: Stilgar, do we have wormsign?
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.

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Paul: We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.

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Paul: You have no need for your weapons with me, Gurney Halleck.

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Gurney Halleck: Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

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Paul: Father... father, the sleeper has awakened!

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Gurney Halleck: The slow blade penetrates the shield.

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Paul: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain.

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Chani: Tell me of your homeworld, Usul.

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Piter De Vries: It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

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Gurney Halleck: Shield Practice.
Paul: Gurney, we had practice this morning. I'm not in the mood.
Gurney Halleck: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting!
Paul: I'm sorry Gurney.
Gurney Halleck: Not sorry enough.

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Guildmaster: We foresee a slight problem within House Atreides. Paul, Paul Atreides.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: You mean of course Duke Leto, his father?
Guildmaster: I mean Paul Atreides. We want him killed. I did not say this. I am not here.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I understand.

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Piter De Vries: I knew Yueh's wife. I was the one who broke his Imperial conditioning. I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm. Desire clouds my reason. That is not good. That is bad.

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Feyd-Rautha: Who is the little one, a pet perhaps? Will she deserve my special attentions?

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Duke Leto Atreides: I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

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Baron Harkonnen: I will have Arrakis back for myself! He who controls the Spice controls the universe and what Piter did not tell you is we have control of someone who is very close, very close, to Duke Leto! This person, this traitor, will be worth more to us than ten legions of Sardaukar!
Feyd-Rautha: And who is this, traitor?
Baron Harkonnen: I won't tell you who the traitor is, or when we'll attack. However, the Duke will die before these eyes and he'll know, he'll know, that it is I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who encompasses his doom!

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Baron Harkonnen: He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!

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Baron Harkonnen: The spice must flow.

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Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow on the second moon?
Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.
Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
Stilgar: You are now Paul Muad'Dib!

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Paul: They tried and failed?
Reverend Mother Mohiam: They tried and died.

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Paul: My name is a killing word.

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Paul: Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arakeen air.

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Paul: Long live the fighters!

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Paul: I'm dead to everyone unless I become what I may be.

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Paul: He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.

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Feyd-Rautha: Why are you going to prolong the inevitable? I will kill you!

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[repeated line]
Feyd-Rautha: ...I WILL KILL YOU/HIM!

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Paul: [realizing that a poisoned Thufir is being forced to try and assassinate him] ... You have served House Atreides faithfully for three generations, Thufir Hawat. As the new Duke, I hereby invite you to ask me for whatever you wish. You may request anything of me, anything at all.
[He stares deeply into Thufir's eyes]
Paul: Do you need my life, Thufir? If so, my life is yours. Take it.
[Thufir hesitates, looking as if he might cry]
Paul: I'm serious, Thufir. If you mean to strike, strike. I will not resist you.
Thufir Hawat: [He turns to Feyd and the Emperor] ... Did you actually believe, even for a moment, that I would fail my Duke TWICE?
[He commits suicide]

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Paul: I will tell you how it will be. I will marry your daughter, the Princess Irulan. I will become the new Emperor of the Known Universe.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I am House Corrino! Only I sit on the throne!
Paul: You and your House shall have a throne on Salusa Secundus, your prison world, and the training ground for your accursed Sardaukar.
[using the Voice]
Paul: ... EITHER THAT, OR YOU WILL DIE.

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Paul: Don't try your powers on me, witch! Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Silence him, Jessica!
Lady Jessica: [like a robot] Silence him yourself, if you can.
Paul: For ninety generations, you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing weapon... a weapon that would enable you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am; and these goals, I have achieved. But I'll *never* be *yours*.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: [using the Voice] You mustn't speak of...
Paul: [also using the Voice, which overpowers her] *Silence*! I remember your Gom Jabbar, now you remember mine. I can kill with a word.

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Paul: What's in the box?
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Pain.

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[last lines]
Alia: And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!

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[first lines]
Princess Irulan: A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that is is the year 10191. The known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam the Fourth, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spice has mutated over 4000 years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of the universe without moving. Oh, yes. I forgot to tell you. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.

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The Baron's Doctor: [treating Baron Harkonnen] Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it 'round real neat.

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Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Bring in that floating fat man, the Baron!

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Duke Leto Atreides: [responding to Thufir's resignation, after Paul narrowly cheats death via a "hunter-seeker," with which his chamber was boobytrapped] ... Enough of this, Thufir! *If* you made a mistake, it was in over-estimating the Harkonnens. Their simple minds came up with a simple trick! Moreover, Paul survived this largely because of your training; you didn't fail there.

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Alia: I am a messenger from Muad'Dib. Poor Emperor. I'm afraid my brother won't be very pleased with you.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Silence!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Kill this child. She's an abomination. Kill her!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: [groans then yells at Alia] Get out of my mind!
Alia: [using the voice] Not until you tell them both who I *really* am!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Weakly] Alia, daughter of Duke Leto the Just and the royal lady Jessica. Sister... of Paul... Muad'Dib.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Paul's sister? Paul is Muad'Dib?

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Paul: [sees Thufir] My God.
[inner voice]
Paul: They've taken your mind.
[out loud]
Paul: Gurney, I see Thufir Hawat among the captives. Let him stand free.
Feyd-Rautha: [turns towards Thufir] The antidote.
[he slips a knife inside Thufir's sleeve]
Gurney Halleck: Thufir, come.
Paul: In payment of the many years of service to my family, you may ask me of anything, anything you wish. Do you need my life old friend? It is yours.
[turns around]
Paul: I mean this Thufir, if you are to strike, do it now.
Thufir Hawat: [raises knife, to everyone's shock, but drops it and quickly pulls out his heart plug. He collapses into Paul's arms] Three generations of... you...
[he dies]
Paul: Carry this noble Atreides warrior away. Do him all honor.

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Paul: Is it true, that the sand can blow at seven hundred kilometers per hour?
Dr. Wellington Yueh: It can render flesh to dust in minutes. And these dry winds can generate tremendous static electricity in the atmosphere. Our body shields won't have enough power to operate in the open air on Arrakis.

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Paul: If we walk without rhythm, we won't attract the worm.

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The Baron's Doctor: You are SO beautiful, my Baron. Your skin, love to me. Your diseases lovingly cared for, for all eternity.

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Piter De Vries: As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan...
Baron Harkonnen: *My* plan!
Piter De Vries: ...*the* plan... to crush the Atreides.

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Dr. Kynes: Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.

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