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• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

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  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.

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  Mother, Father, Cycle Of Life

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• Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

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  Children, Home, Needs

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• When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)

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  Writing, Editors, Names

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• 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 one from the other.

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  Trust, Able, Should

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.250, Steerforth

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• That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone. to be reassured or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these - I was afraid I was dreaming.

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  Dream, World, Saving

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.28, Bantam

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• I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.

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  Spiritual, Archery, Yellow

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• I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

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  Technology, Long, Support

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• We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

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  World, Path, Remember

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.325, Bantam

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• What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

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  Normal, Failing

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• Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.

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  Thinking, Air, Perfect

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• The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

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  Successful, Events, Here And There

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• 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 you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

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  Men, Two, Forever

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• 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.

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  Secret, Library, Facts

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

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  Looks, Stories, Know How

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.26, Bantam

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• Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

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  Community, Earth, Care

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• The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

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  Ambiguous, Profession, Cease

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.9, Bantam

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• Courage is the virtue of the free.

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  Courage, Virtue

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.83, Steerforth

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• [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 begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

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  War, Past, Civilization

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• Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

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  School, Blue, Color

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• All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

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  Lying, Squirrels, Hands

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• Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.

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  Fall, Rocks, Eagles

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