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Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world__ language, that it__ different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn__ speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn__ it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don__ hear just with your ears. And I said that__ what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life._ Hawat chuckled. __ow__ that sit with her?_ __ think she got mad. She said the mystery of life isn__ a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world__ language, that it__ different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn__ speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn__ it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don__ hear just with your ears. And I said that__ what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life._ Hawat chuckled. __ow__ that sit with her?_ __ think she got mad. She said the mystery of life isn__ a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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