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Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
Daniel Quinn
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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
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Omaha
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Daniel Clarence Quinn
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From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
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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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People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
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five severed fingers do not make a hand
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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
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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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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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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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Courage is the virtue of the free.
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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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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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Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
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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're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
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When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)
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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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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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You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
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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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Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.
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