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  1. There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see aroun…
  2. From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
  3. In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must, in a broad sense, tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not n…
  4. I want to bring down civilization. It's really clear that civilization is killing the planet.
  5. I could not have learned to listen to coyotes without having first learned to listen to my unwillingness to sell my hours, then to listen t…
  6. I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job.
  7. I remember staring at the computer screen--light green letters on dark--then at the clock, and finally at my outstretched fingers held a fo…
  8. Turning away from the computer I saw through my own narrow window (at least it opened) the green, the blue, the flashes. I looked to the cl…

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