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The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
Daniel Quinn
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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
Autobiographer
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Omaha
Nebraska
Daniel Clarence Quinn
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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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Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.
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Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
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The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
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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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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
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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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The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight
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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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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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Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.
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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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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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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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Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!
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We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.
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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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The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
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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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