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“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

Thinking Way Years Humans Two Three Individual Social Human Beings Results Thousand Impulse Native Thrive Thousand Years Venture Evident

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.”

Littles Self Born Clear Elements Rose Rounds Native Regions Shed Globes Careless Bosoms Dew Mansions

Author:Andrew Marvell

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.”

Ifs Said Different Philosophy Able Wonder Break Strange Prejudice Lays Familiar Fancy Native Plato Slumber Dogmatic Plato And Aristotle

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.”

“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”

Ifs Want Country Sides Failing Land Understood Rain Native Showers Native Land

Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.”

People Men Way Doe Church White Masters Native White Man Foreigners Oppressors Colony

Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.”

Young Aging West Population Native Elsewhere Continents Fading Demographics

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.”

Mind Looks May Stills Might Periods Weapons Russia Destroyed Eras Bombs Native Elbows Atomic Bomb Treachery

Author:Curtis LeMay

“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.”

Thinking Art Tree Rain Areas Clouds Giants Native Native American Pacific Pacific Northwest

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.”

Thinking America Black White Rooms Color Agree Blind Native Racist Native American Asian Latino

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.”

People Thinking Real Father Nations White Citizens Constitution Burden African American Native Native American Founding Seals

Book:A Torchlight for America

Source: A Torchlight for America

“Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.”

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.”

Art Bigs Lines Simple Roles Creativity Influence Emotional Impact Simplicity British Primaries Colour Native Curves Columbia Graciousness British Columbia

Author:Joe Average

“Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.”

Book Sometimes Speak Language Intimate Native Speakers Foreigners Translators

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.”

Love Should Children Country Universe Cities Creatures Reasoning Native Other Countries Our Love Child Of God Totality

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.”

Men World Stills States Stuff Goes On Gold Ignorant Dull Native Admiration Metals Discernment Glitter Ostentatious

Book:10 Books in 1

Source: 10 Books in 1

“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”

Nations Leader Fields Duty University Aliens Native Educate

Author:A. C. Cuza

“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.”

Should May Light Used Language Effects Computer Tools Mathematics Patient Mathematical Programming Native Speakers Precise Programming Languages Knowledgeable

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.”

People Firsts Stills Reason Three Common Cities Class Thirds Greek Native Customs Severe Tribes Egypt Mercenary Alexandria

Author:Strabo

“The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.”

Character Individual Land Native Native Land

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.”

Men Soul Prayer Remains Impulse Native

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland.”

Used Son Brother Kings Used To Be Native Brooklyn Larry Poland Cnn Auschwitz Turner Warner Brothers

Author:Mark Steyn

“Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.”

Want Needs Self Language Adults Investing Tongue Idiot Native Infant Therapists Needy

Author:Thomas Szasz

“The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.”

Grows Justice Decision Leader Victory Sells Department Native Marijuana Native American Tribes Eagles Reservations

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.”

World Feels Whole Individual Vision Land Whole World Native Surroundings Native Land

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.”

Feels Humans Enough Home Human Beings Land Tradition Dear Backgrounds Impression Sensitive Native Native Land

Author:Emma Goldman

“Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.”

Film Audience Western Tales Native Native American Lacking Epic Western Films

Author:Beau Bridges

“Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.”

People Today Christian Community Numbers Lord Atheism Band Areas Slavery Remains League Thirty Native Survivor Dominion

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.”

Ifs World Matter No Matter What Tongue Native Accents

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.”

Two Government Law Nations Enjoy Moral Opinion Class Greater Degrees Mass Convinced Former Native Latter Divided Sheep Native American Public Opinion Governing Pretence

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.”

Ifs Thinking Character Feelings Home Eye Individual Virtue Land Intellectual Connections Connected Arise Locals Perceive Native Attachment Native Land Birthplace Topography Birth Place

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.”

“The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.”

Red Army Clean Population Native Parallels Horde Red Army

Author:George F. Kennan

“Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.”

Firsts Use Mankind Poet All Things Native Instructors

Author:Horace

“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”

Natural Native Tense New Yorkers Present Tense

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.”

World Mind Body Jesus Names Heaven Christ Land This World Masters Kings Holy Calling Angel Blessed Saint All Time Native Heavenly Abiding Pilgrim Banishment

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.”

Men Heart Character Simple Angel Heat Native Life Or Death

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.”

Choices Land Strive Native Slips Adoption Strife Foreign Lands

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.”

Soul Heaven Path Cutting Pure Glory Wings Native Pure Soul

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

Way States Facts Mother Sides United United States Circumstances Offers Chiefs African American Indian Native Grandfather Native American Indian Chief

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]”

Forget Land Charm Native Patriotism Sweetness Native Land

Author:Ovid

“I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Forests Native Elephants End Of The World Herds Appointments Dense Pacing

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“There is, they say, (and I believe there is), A spark within us of th' immortal fire, That animates and moulds the grosser frame; And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven; Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.”

Believe Soul Body I Believe Heaven Fire Seats Native Immortal Sparks Mould

Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.”

Wells Age Song Painting Taste Degrees Native Faculty Rude

Book:Miscellanies;

Source: Miscellanies;

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