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“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“In the old ways and old religions, there'd been no future, only an endless now.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“One of the puzzling things about all the theories about the origins of money that we’ve been looking at so far is that they almost completely ignore the evidence of anthropology. Anthropologists do have a great deal of knowledge of how economies within stateless societies actually worked.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“We are one life reaching out into a dark future.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune