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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in…
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to…
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,…
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we…
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within…
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of…
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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…
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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.…
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of…
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and…
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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit,…
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself…
— Anne Bronte
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of…
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we…
— Black Elk
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not…
— Cyril Connolly
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So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have…
— Nicole Polizzi
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate…
— Brenda Shaughnessy
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
— Cato the Elder
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Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and…
— Plutarch
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To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
— Christopher Reeve
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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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