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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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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
— Jacques Barzun
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
— Vaclav Havel
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Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
— William J. Clinton
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An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture,…
— Ken Wyatt
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We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our…
— Jose Mujica
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If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind…
— Janet Morris
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The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It…
— Albert J. Nock
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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…
— David Abram
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It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not…
— Peter Senge
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
— Ambrose Bierce
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With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar…
— Fidel Castro
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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
— Robert B. Parker
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