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“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

“Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.”

Learning Tongue Mathematical Programming Native Assets Mastery Inclination Competent Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Computer Programmers

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.”

People Looks Standing Native Village Robes Extravagant

Author:Richelle Mead

“The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.”

Children Purpose Grows Native Assignments

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”

Want Dies Reading Return Finished Native Wanting To Die

Book:The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston

Source: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston

“We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.”

World Seems Turns Views Quality Endure Affection Uncertainty Range Settling Native Significance Divergent

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.”

Source: Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

“I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.”

Feels Stills Country America My Own Native Belonging Native American Visitors

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”

Heart Long Ends Action Heaven Figures Judging Duty My Heart Following Native Compliment Peculiar Sleeves Seeming Moors Heart On My Sleeve

Author:William Shakespeare

“They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.”

Way Needs Kids Language Too Much Air Couple Wings Surprise Breathe Native Choke Foreign Language Native Language

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”

Ifs Mind Wells Asks Common Mistake Economy Plans Masters Fool Genius Common Sense Idiot Native Finding Yourself Pretending Execution Navy Shortcuts Throttle

Author:Herman Wouk

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

People Forget Moral Land Fellows Dear Native Hypocrite Native Land

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”

Children Earth Mother Fall Speak Fear Sleep Return Horror Soil Native Frightened Yearning Bosoms Mother Earth Withered Decrepit

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”

Children Wisdom Motivational Earth Peace Environment Land Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Our Children Environmental Climate Change Indian Native Ancestor Native American Elders Inheritance Our Planet Our Environment Environmentalism Mother Earth Borrowing Descendants American Indian Earth Day Nature And Environment Native American Wisdom Great Spirit Native America Save Mother Earth Native American Indian Earth And Nature Great Native American Native American Earth Green Earth Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom Native Land Nature Conservation World Environment Beautiful Earth Green Living Save The Environment Native American Indian Inspirational Save Nature Native American Spiritual Native American Dream World Earth Day Environmental Pollution Inspirational Earth Inspirational Environmental Spiritual Indian Native American Proverbs Saving The Earth Go Green Happy Earth Day Ancient India Earth Friendly Protect Nature Cherokee Indian Native Place

Author:Chief Seattle

“I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and I don't do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.”

Giving May Children Belief Poor Taught Return Taste Weakness Overcoming Simplicity Possession Generosity Indian Native Prize Guests Native American Tribes Clans Native Wisdom

Author:Charles Alexander Eastman

“This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.”

World Ends Body Water Hours Forever Air Mystery Sea Land Wine Bottom Wave Naked Remembered Sand Native Sunset The End Of The Day End Of The World Rosy Chalk Native Land

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.”

People America Culture Lost Chance Teach Land Produce Tradition Native Continents Native American Refugee Indigenous Connectedness Another Chance Web Of Life

Author:Mary Pipher

“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”

Thinking Firsts Whole Stories Numbers Happened Dog Evidence Areas Cat Function Agents Native Companion Efficient Accurate Grain Egypt Psychics Snakes Tamed Weasels Rodents Mayans

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.”

“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.”

Writing Grew Grew Up Percent Areas Population Indian Native Ironic Native American Sixty Urban Reservations American Writer Urban Areas Ironic Things

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.”

May Helping Land Bitter Native Providence Apprehension Submissive Native Land

Author:Donald Cargill

“Dreams are our only geography—our native land.”

Dream Land Native Geography Native Land

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don’t know.”

Knows Way Mean I Can Three Voice Hours Tables Track Native Wilderness Native American Furniture

Author:Rick Riordan

“There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.”

Three Wise Fingers Native Native American Pointing Scorn Very Wise Pointing Fingers

Book:Fated

Source: Fated

“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”

Source: Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays

“Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said, and smiled at him. "Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice." "And you are willing to be my tutor?" "I should be very insulted if you chose another," Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.”

Ifs Should May Said Practice Five Talent Willing Skills Kissing Lips Technique Native Steady Cheeks Rating Insulted Gabriel Tutor Gabriel Lightwood

Author:Cassandra Clare

“In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Heart Certain Suffering Felt Views Land Loneliness Lonely Point Of View Familiar Pity Native Suspicion Surroundings Foreigners Initiate Native Land Undeserving

Author:John Irving

“I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.”

Thinking Knows May I Can Reason Silence Know How Scene Encounters Native Native American Arrivals Columbus Benign Close Encounters

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.”

Firsts Stuff Wife Positive Understood My Wife Partners Damage Native Damage Is Done

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.”

School Ability Education Learning Tree Fruit Educational Native

Author:Aristippus

“Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.”

Made Knowledge Creating Weak Native Initiative Unfortunate Stunned Knowledge Is Power Dupes

Book:This Simian World

Source: This Simian World

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”

“Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!”

Fire Land Green Strikes Graves Native Patriotism Altars Native Land

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”

“Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.”

Knows Culture Asks Nature Animal Humility Bears Guidance Native Survived Nests Ravens Redwoods

Book:Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

“The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.”

“Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.”

Today Opportunity Inspiring Effort Rights Doors Movement Gay Standing Equality Civil Rights Legacy Native Disability Native American Latino Civil Rights Movement

Author:Barack Obama

“Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.”

Happiness Form Joy Given Break Knowing Our Lives Laughter Complexes Deeper Native Urges Equipment Loaded Stalemate

Author:Jean Houston

“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.”

“As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.”

World Ideas Earth Asks Wish Water Watches Sun Air Planets Genius Future Skills Universal Evening Ran Native Historian Foresight Save Mother Earth Smog

Author:U Thant

“The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.”

“The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.”

Source: American Indian Stories

“America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.”

Doe Dream Seems America Remember Values Culture Wealth Justice Diversity Social Justice Medicine Native Native American

Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

“Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.”

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.”

People Ifs Way Wells May Has Beens Eye Past Used Culture Justice Land Identity Diversity Roots Social Justice Native Expecting Native Land

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”

“Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.”

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