Daniel Quinn Short Quotes

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No story is devoid of meaning... If you know how to look for it.

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You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

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We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

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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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There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

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If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

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Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

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If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

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

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The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

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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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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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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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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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And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

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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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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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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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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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Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

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All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

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