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• Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

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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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• 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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• The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don’t love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

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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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• Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

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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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• Five severed fingers do not make a hand.

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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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• Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.

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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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• You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

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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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• The rules that govern competition between species are very different from the rules that govern competition within species.

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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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• I can’t shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we’re being lied to about.

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• You’re captives of a civilization system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

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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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• What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

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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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Daniel Quinn (32)

Birth:	1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Daniel Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He is an American writer, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. He specifically identifies his philosophy as new tribalism. He went on to study at Saint Louis University, at University of Vienna, Austria, through IES Abroad, and at Loyola University, receiving a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957.

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