"Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington……" — Chief Seattle
"Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons."
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61 Quotes by Chief Seattle
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the…
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We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them…
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Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
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Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say?…
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The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the…
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Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret…
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The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might…
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Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and…
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If…
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We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer,…
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
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There is no such place as away.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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