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P.126: "...To get irritated is to lose our way of life." "That sounds like a religious interpretation of a traffic jam if there ever was one." "I'm a Christian. I don't go to church, but I've always been a Christian." "Is that so? Don't see any contradiction between being a Christian and being the chauffeur for a major right-wing figure?"
I laughed so hard reading this part. Hillarious😭🤣🤣

P.81: " Time really us one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on."

P. 121: "He belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man's house; not did he belong to the rich man's house. He belonged to the land and he could not live with any fullness untill he felt the land under his feet and followed a plow in the springtime and bore a scythe in his hand at harvest."

Notes on the acidification of the world ocean:
P. 88: "One-third of all the carbon dioxide that has been emitted since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has been absorbed by seawater, turning it acid."
P.90: "Even in acidified water, the conches could easily turn themselves upright. What the acid seawater affected,..., was the 'decision-making' of the conch. The toxic sea was distorting its mind."

P.69: "It is the most subversive picture of knowledge. Look at a wild creature - even hold it in your hand - and it is obvious that you do not 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence."

Page 58:"these stastocysts are shared among all the invertebrates, and have their equivalent in vertebrate animals too, from fish upwards. Is the process mechanical? Or to do with being?... that invertebrates such as these prawns 'are aware of the world (including the state of the mobile body within the world), and that this aware-ness feels a certain way to the organism that has it'."

" He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house."

P.77
"In a world where religion seems to be the cause of conflict and bloodshed, it is easy to overlook the ways in which the great faiths learnt and borrowed from each other."

Page 186.
"What I feared most was not God but those who believed in Her to excess. The stupidity of the pious, whose judgement could never be compared with those of the God--God forbid--they adored with all their heart: This was the second thing that scared me."

“Whose’s war don’t matter. Whose money don’t matter either. That’s what war is.” (p. 154)

“Do a good job. A body who works baf thinks bad, I always say.” (page 108)

“Huge organizations and me don’t get along. They’re too inflexible, waste too much time, have too many stupid people.” (page 79)

“Don’t blame me. That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution,” (page 49)

"The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it." (Pg. 274)

“Aren’t you doing this, in part, to get personal revenge on society? As one of the elites, someone who thinks like an outcast.” (pg. 200)