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Very Quotes by Daniel Quinn
- The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted…
- Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this…
- [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…
- [I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years.…
- 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…
- Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the…
- 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…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong