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One Quotes by Daniel Quinn
- You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person…
- If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
- The world was not made for any one species.
- 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…
- But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and…
- 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…
- There is no one right way to live.
- 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…
- 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.
- The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is…
- ....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or…
- 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…
- [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work…
- The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man…
- There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with…
- Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.
- Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle