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These caves aren’t art galleries or shamanistic temples, they’re schools of the hunting arts—the equivalent of one of our museums of science and industry.

— Daniel Quinn The Story of B (1996)

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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.

Ishmael (1992)

The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world.

Ishmael (1992)

Six billion of you wake up every morning and start devouring the world.

My Ishmael (1997)

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world’s divinely appointed ruler.

Ishmael (1992)

Any culture will become an obscenity when blown up into a universal world culture to which all must belong.

The Story of B (1996)

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