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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.

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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Earth Order Power Vision
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Inspirational Life Peace
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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Dead Except Lying People Saws
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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Summer Thinking Years
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.

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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.

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