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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Tahir Shah
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I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

Mario Testino
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The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.

Joe Hill, The Fireman
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Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the Aztecs and Incas patriarchal? It is far more likely that even though the precise definition of man and woman varies between cultures, there is some universal biological reason why almost all cultures valued manhood over womanhood. We do not know what this reason is; there are plenty of theories, none of the convincing.

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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There has always been the wind. Since our planet began to turn, there has been the wind. This ball of dirt and fire and water started to spin. The air stirred. And Earth's time began. But the beginnings of the wind are lost in the mists of time. The wind blew before the Appian Way wended through Rome. It blew before the Parthenon crowned Athens. Before pyramids sprang up in Egypt. Before the Mayans. Before the Incas. Before Man.

Kaye George, Death in the Time of Ice
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Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.

Michael E. Moseley, The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
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With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

Garcilaso de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
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