"You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon t… - Frank Herbert

Schools were started to train human talents...

The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.

If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.