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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 _ Providence

    What I said in Ishmael stands: There is no One Right Way to live. What we find among Leaver peoples is that each has a way that works well for them. We may not like one particular way, we may think it atrocious and cruel, but it's their way, not ours, and the most murderous culture in human history is hardly in a position to set itself up as the moral policeman of the world.
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  3. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.
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  4. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of the fox and take the air with the eagle and run in the track of the deer.
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  5. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on.
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  6. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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  7. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK
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  8. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    The current controversy over God's sex doesn't strike anyone as being the least bit primitive. If God is going to be like us, then there must be sexual equipment of one kind or the other, even though it presumably doesn't get much use.
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  9. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
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  10. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it's never examined or even noticed by anyone. It's like the sound of blood rushing through your veins-you hear it so constantly that you don't hear it at all.
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  11. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules.
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  12. Daniel Quinn _ Providence

    A battered wife will invest all her feelings of self-worth in her battering husband. She has totally accepted her husband's valuation of her, and this is why she stays: She hopes to redeem herself in her husband's eyes-and therefore in her own.
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