"War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you."
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"Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities."
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"When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal."
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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."
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"The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself."
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"The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
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"Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself."
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"The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events."
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"A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive."
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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
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"I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity"
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"Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all."
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"It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire."
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"The dice cannot read their own spots."
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"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
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"Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it."
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"The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche."
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"It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge."
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"Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away."
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