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 "I heard this, naturally, from my grandfather, he from his grandfather, he from his own grandfather, and so on, back many hundreds of years. That means this tale is very old. But it won't disappear, because I offer it to my children, and my children will tell it to their children, and so on."

GYPSY STORYTELLER LAZAROS HARISIADIS, QUOTED BY DIANE TONG IN GYPSY FOLK TALES

 Shit, I am going to copy out the entire Part 1.

"… was defaced and abandoned …
… the city's ultimate collapse …
Whatever happened …
… the city was destroyed …
The collapse may have been caused by …
… sites were abandoned …
… towns were abandoned …"

PAST WORLDS: THE TIMES ATLAS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

"I went out to buy transcendence
and came back with a telephone."

ANTHONY WEIR

"I am twenty-two years old and I will wait no longer."

SCOTT VALENTINE

"We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free."

MARSHALL SAHLINS

"Yeah,
Well,
It's pretty lonely
at the bottom,
too."

JOSEPH CHASSLER

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

BUCKMINSTER FULLER

"The tracks of our ancestors have been wiped away by the Great Forgetting. It's not up to us to replant their exact footprints, but to make our own, equally original tracks."

CARL COLE, AGE NINETEEN

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning."

MAX PLANCK