"Considering that virtually none of the standard fare……" — Michael Dorris
"Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?"
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Michael Dorris
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11 Quotes by Michael Dorris
Michael Dorris has 11 quotes on this site.
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Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east…
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I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it…
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At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at…
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Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.
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To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
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We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we…
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My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man…
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Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
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The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the…
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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
— Martha Beck
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
— Wyatt Earp
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
— Charles Babbage
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