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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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Justice is incidental to law and order.
— J. Edgar Hoover
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Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
— Nachman of Breslov
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience…
— H.G. Wells
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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves.…
— Teri Hatcher
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Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are…
— Ann Coulter
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,…
— William James
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The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to…
— Sol LeWitt
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Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.
— Chad Kultgen
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In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether…
— Ludwig von Mises
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We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon…
— Ossie Davis
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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is…
— Edward Sapir
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