Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
TECUMSEHThe gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
We’re in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
AL DUBIN -
I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
BERNHARD LANGER -
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD -
She realized she was lonely for herself, for she missed the taste of oneness and the way connection felt.
LUCY MARY BALL -
I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.
WHITNEY HOUSTON -
A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
BOB GOFF -
When you’re happy, you don’t count the years.
GINGER ROGERS -
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.
BILL N. LACY -
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
OG MANDINO -
You have the power to steer our country in the right direction. Your voice matters more than ever. Use it.
JOE BIDEN -
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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