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Introductory placard: Power over spice is power over all. Fremen Funerial Chant: To the well, our water we return. We bless our brother, Jamis. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Tighten your grip, Rabban. Or feel mine on your neck. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: [to Rabban] Embarrass our family one more time, it will be the last. Shishakli: Hey, Muad'Dib! Don't embarrass us! Call a big one! Lady Fenring: Plans within plans... Reverend Mother: "Hope"? We are Bene Gesserit. We don't hope, we plan. Gurney: Do away with these idiots I blame / My stillsuit is full of piss / My hand is caked in sand / Save me from these utter morons, another world / Another land... Gurney: No need to be a prophet to see what's ahead. Your path leads to war. You know that. So war is coming. What will you do, when you feel its breath upon your neck? Jamis: A good hunter always climbs the highest dune before his hunt. He needs to see as far as he can see. You need to see. Alia Atredes: Oh, brother. My dearest brother. You a

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Rabban's Servant: We're losing too many men to the desert. Glossu Rabban: Rats. Rabban's Servant: I beg your pardon? Glossu Rabban: We're losing men... to rats.

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Lady Jessica: Your father didn't believe in revenge. Paul: Yeah, well, I do.

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Shishakli: The further north you go, the more likely it is you die. Paul: [in Chakobsa] Then I'll die... maybe you will, too. But the others will keep going. And they won't stop until the Fremen are free.

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Chani: Where you're from, does water really fall from the sky? Paul: Oh, hm, yes. Sometimes, it rains for weeks on Caladan. Where you see sand here, imagine water. Our castle stands on cliffs high above the sea. If you dive in, you can't reach the bottom. Chani: You dive in? Paul: Yes, it's called swimming. Chani: [laughs] I don't-- I don't believe you, Usul. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: [furious] Fremen attacks, on your watch?! Your orders were to restore spice production to full capacity. Do you know what it means if you fail? [Rabban glances at the corpses of several servants killed by the Baron in a fit of pique] The Emperor will take spice out of our control. Tighten your grip, Rabban... Glossu Rabban Harkonnen: [fearfully] Uncle... Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Or feel mine on your neck.

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Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: The slave wasn't drugged. You tried to kill me? Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: This morning, you were a playboy, feared and envied. But tonight, you're a hero! My gift to you. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: [seething] I ought to drown you in that tub! Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: [chuckles] Don't be hasty. I have another gift for you, a bigger one. Arrakis. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: [confused] What about Rabban? Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: He has failed to protect spice production. Rabban will be reassigned. Tame Arrakis, Feyd. Free the spice, I'll make you Emperor. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: Emperor? How? Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: The Emperor helped me destroy the Atreides, and lent his own army to the cause. A serious crime. If it came to light, the Great Houses would rise against him. Then, who will sit on the throne? Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen!

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Jessica: Do you not think I also feel the weight of the prophecy? Paul: It's not a prophecy. It's a story that you keep telling, but it's not their story. It's yours. They deserve to be led by one of their own. What your people did to this world is heartbreaking. Jessica: We gave them something to hope for. Paul: THAT'S NOT HOPE!

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Gurney: "Muad'Dib, the Prophet". Why is that a bad thing? Use it. Paul: It's not that simple. Gurney: You have the power to avenge your father, and you're afraid to use it? Paul: Spice opened my mind, Gurney. I can forsee things. If I go South, all my visions lead to horror. Billions of corpses scattered across the galaxy, all dying because of me. Gurney: Because you lose control? Paul: Because I gain it.

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Paul: He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it. Chani: So you can control it, but not us?

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Stilgar: We need you, we need the Lisan al-Gaib to lead our people. Paul: You know what I think of all that, Stilgar. Stilgar: I don't care what you believe, I believe!

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Elder: Only tribe leaders can speak. If you wish to share your voice, you must take his place by defeating him and returning his water to the well. Paul: You think I'm stupid enough to deprive myself of the best of us? [in Chakobsa] Do you smash a knife before battle? Stilgar: [English] Take my life, Usul. It is the only way. Paul: I'm pointing the way! Jessica: Slow down. Paul: [in Chakobsa] There is no one in this room who can stand against me!

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Princess Irulan Corrino: Did you counsel my father to exterminate the Atredes? Reverend Mother Mohiam: Of course I did. Why else would it have happened?

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Jessica: I came to wish you best of luck. Chani: I'd wish you the same. But it seems you've won your battle.

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Reverend Mother Mohiam: Consider what you are about to do, Paul Atreides— Paul: [using The Voice] SILENCE! Reverend Mother Mohiam: [taken aback at Paul's outburst] Abomination.

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Emperor Shaddam IV: As a servant of the Imperium, you will bow at my feet. Paul: Your feet?! You'll be lucky to keep your head.

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Paul: May thy knife chip and shatter. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: May thy knife chip and shatter.

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Jessica: You should've believed. You chose the wrong side. Reverend Mother Mohiam: "Side"? You of all people should know, there are no sides. Reverend Mother...

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Gurney: My Lord. The Great Houses have answered. They refuse to honor your ascendancy. Stilgar: We await your orders, Lisan al-Gaib. Paul: Lead them to paradise.

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Alia: What is happening, mother? Jessica: Your brother attacks the Great Houses. The Holy War begins.