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"I see in the future what I've seen in the past. You well know the pattern of our affairs, Jessica. The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of it heredity. It's in the bloodstream--the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.  The Imperium, the CHOAM Company, all the Great Houses, they are but bits of flotsam in the path of the flood."

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-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:3:22