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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or… — Wendell Berry
The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on… — Dennis Weaver
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us… — Huldrych Zwingli
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are… — Bjorn Lomborg
...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly… — David Cameron
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy… — Charles Brockden Brown
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. — Ronald Reagan
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives. — BrenÃ© Brown
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and… — Richard M. Nixon
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total… — Mahatma Gandhi
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some… — Carl Cohen
Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of… — Dorothy E. Denning
The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around… — Barbara Boxer
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to… — Joseph de Maistre
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,'… — William J. Clinton
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. — Unknown Author
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. — Dwight L. Moody
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. — Louis L'Amour
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways.… — Christopher Nolan
Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the… — Harold Lindsell
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway

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