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“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
― Winston Churchill

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“[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: ecology, exploitation, philosophy

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“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 the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: civilization, philosophy

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“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 slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: evolution, philosophy

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“There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: civilization, exploitation, philosophy

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