# Quote — Frank Herbert, Children Of Dune

> We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy — or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

- Author: [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md)
- Book: [Children Of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/weve-lost-something

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> The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.

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> One of us had to accept the agony, and he was always the stronger.

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> The body of Muad'dib is a dry shell like that abandoned by an insect. He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe. He mastered the outer world while excluding the inner world, and this delivered his decendants to the demons. The Golden Elixer will vanish from Dune, yet Muad'dib's seed goes on, and his water moves our universe.

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