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If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
— Daniel Quinn
I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard - they always have someone to talk to.
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When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. - Paul Veyne
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[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.
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May the forests be with you and with your children.
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I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules.
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Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.
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And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
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You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.
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The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
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Courage is the virtue of the free.
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Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.
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Tribal people get more out of life.
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Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
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The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.
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Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK
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How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.
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It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.
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Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be - nothing more and nothing less.
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Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
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There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.
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We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.
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Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can
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We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.
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But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.
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I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.
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There is no one right way to live.
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It applies to all species without distinction.
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Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil - not the world - "Ishmael
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I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late.
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If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael
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There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world - any place at all.
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Pity is always twinged with disgust.
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You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
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For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
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The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. ... The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
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Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.
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The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.
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Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.
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Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.
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We are all captives of a story.
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In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker.
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I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.
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What he had to tell them was a story
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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.
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You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.
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Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
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A tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living.
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If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.
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But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live
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Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable
and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. — Daniel Quinn
and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. — Daniel Quinn
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
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The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
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Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.
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With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?
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WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER.
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With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?
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