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There is no full recall of the past for the Bene Gesserit.
Matthew Yglesias » The Racial Politics of Dune and Avatar 2009
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By the way I played Dune man times and the position I now always play whenever I can play it is the Bene Gesserit.
PBeM: Dune Selecting Factions « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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The only hiccup in House Atreides was the mention of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother consulting with a Feng Shui expert on the proper construction and orientation of a birthing facility being built on Wallach IX, the home planet of the witches.
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Paul is a mistake for the Bene Gesserit, and he uses all of their tuned mechanisms to cause all of their plans to blow up in their face.
Matthew Yglesias » The Racial Politics of Dune and Avatar 2009
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We see the Bene Gesserit witches as being the subtle manipulators in all schemes, but also we find out more about their breeding programs and how devious they can be in getting what they want.
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In Frank Herbert's Science Fiction epic, Dune he had the character Bene Gesserit talk about fear.
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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In Frank Herbert's Science Fiction epic, Dune he had the character Bene Gesserit talk about fear.
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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But, sometimes they do so to isolate themselves biologically, creating a Bene Gesserit breeding program to facilitate the coming of their Chosen One.
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In Frank Herbert's Science Fiction epic, Dune he had the character Bene Gesserit talk about fear.
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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In Dune, by contrast, the willingness of the Fremen to accept Paul Atreides as a leader is explicitly portrayed as in part a consequence of colonialist manipulation by the Bene Gesserit missionaria protectiva.
Matthew Yglesias » The Racial Politics of Dune and Avatar 2009
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