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"There are a handful of books that are more than literature: they are polished gems of wisdom. Tales of Adam is the latest of them....Short, pithy and ageless...Quinn crafts his narrative with a diamond-cutter's care....Here is wisdom for the ages, for all ages..."--Santa Fe New Mexican
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Pan Earth: a site dedicated to a scientific, holistic approach to world problems (and population in particular).
Read Ishmael: a site created by Quinn readers to reach out to other prospective readers.
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Friends of Ishmael Society: find local groups (and more).
IshCon:
another reader-created site. It's not active now, but conversations, plus information and photos about the conferences they organized, are archived and available for viewing.
IshThink: an active reader-created discussion site. It's main purpose--to give people a forum to explore feelings and thoughts engendered by reading Quinn books.
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"I'm telling you this because the people of your culture are in much the same situation. Like the people of Nazi Germany, they are the captives of a story." "I know of no such story." "You mean you've never heard of it?" "That's right." Ishmael nodded. AThat's because there's no need to hear of it. There's no need to name it or discuss it. Every one of you knows it by heart by the time you're six or seven. Black and white, male and female, rich and poor, Christian and Jew, American and Russian, Norwegian and Chinese, you all hear it. And you hear it incessantly, because every medium of propaganda, every medium of education pours it out incessantly. And, hearing it incessantly, you don't listen to it. There's no need to listen to it. It's always there humming away in the background, so there's no need to attend to it at all." Ishmael

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