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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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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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Courage is the virtue of the free.
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You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
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Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.
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And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.
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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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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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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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What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.
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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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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
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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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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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From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
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....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.
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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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No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
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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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There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.
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The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
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