Daniel Quinn

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Daniel Quinn across IJR

• “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.”

• “If the will is there, the method will be found.”

• “I closed my eyes and found the interior rooms of my head quite thoroughly deserted.”

• “If I were someone else, I’d try to console you with a fairy tale like the one they tell about Santa Claus every Christmas. I’d tell you that Mommy’s going to be taken up to heaven to live with God and the angels, and from there I’ll look down and watch over you. The truth is better than this—partly because it is the truth.”

• “No one has ever specifically asked me what I have against birth control, but I’ll answer the question anyway. I don’t have a thing against birth control as such. It just represents a very poor problem-solving strategy. The rule in crisis management is, Don’t make it your goal to control effects, make it your goal to control causes. If you control causes, then you don’t have to control effects.”

• “That’s what governments are there for, to keep good things from happening.”

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