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  1. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    All the major world religions {always excluding animism, of course}, are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.
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  2. Daniel Quinn _ Beyond Civilization:

    The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors-one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.
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  3. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    It applies to all species without distinction.
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  4. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    We've discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
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  5. Daniel Quinn _ Beyond Civilization:

    In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker.
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  6. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.
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  7. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    Where are you looking at it from?" "Oh. From above. From outer space." "What are you doing up there?" "I don't know." "Why aren't you down on the surface?
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  8. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there.
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  9. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    The world is a very, very fine place. It wasn't a mess. It didn't need to be conquered and ruled by man. In other words, the world doesn't belong to man - but it does need man to belong to it. creature had to be the first to go through this... creature had to find the way, and if that happened, then...there was no limit to what could happen here. In other words, man does have a place in the world, but it's not his place to rule...Man's place is to be the first. Man's place is to be the first without being the last. Man's place is to figure out how it's possible to do that - and then to make room for all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become. And maybe, when the time comes, it's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become. Not the only teacher, not the ultimate teacher. Maybe only the first teacher, the kindergarten teacher - but even that wouldn't be too shabby.
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  10. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    once again I was thunderstruck-but this time by a feeling of profound relief, for I had been redeemed from oblivion. More, the error that caused me to live as an unwitting impostor for so many years had been corrected at last. I had been made whole as a person-not again but for the very first time.
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  11. Daniel Quinn _ The Story of B

    Borders are always tricky, intriguing things. {...} Feral children fascinate because they stand at the border of the animal world. Gorillas and dolphins fascinate because they stand at the border of the human world. {...} Shakespeare's fools fascinate because they live at the border between sanity and madness. The heroes of tragedy fascinate because they walk the border between triumph and defeat. The borders between prehuman and human, between childhood and adulthood, between generations, between nations and peoples, between social and political paradigms - all of these are intensely fascinating.
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  12. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it's no kindness to bring in food from the outside to maintain them at forty thousand. That just guarantees that the famine will continue.
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