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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get…
— Russell Baker
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
— Russell Baker
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our…
— Francois Magendie
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We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
— Linus Pauling
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far…
— Frederick Soddy
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by…
— Henry Taube
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
— Jeff Cooper
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The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It…
— Fred Hoyle
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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design…
— Arthur Compton
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Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of…
— Jeff Cooper
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