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Ishmael (1992)
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If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.
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You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
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In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.
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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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Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
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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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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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There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.
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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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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
Daniel Quinn
Born:
October 11, 1935
Died:
February 17, 2018
(aged 82)
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