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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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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
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Daniel Clarence Quinn
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You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
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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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From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.
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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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I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.
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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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Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
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The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.
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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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If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, My God, what kind of monsters were these people?
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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.
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This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
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There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.
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