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“A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.”

World Mind Values Turns Honesty Sake Affection Generous Charm Native Grain Estates Ornaments Symmetry Knaves

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.”

People Asks Example Members Jew Native Employers Qualified

Author:Alan Borovoy

“An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.”

Country Members Towns Dirty Native

Author:Marjorie Fleming

“Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.”

Feels Mean Form Generations Style Poet Expression Depends Tongue Native Adequate

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.”

Men Facts Land Native Belly Prey Barbarism Native Land

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.”

Humans Beautiful Lost Flower Roots Excellence Passing Passings Paradise Native Touching Charming Memorial Eden Fables Rabbi Passing Out

Author:Charles Villiers Stanford

“We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.”

Running Form History Native Speakers Picky Linguists

Book:Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

Source: Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.”

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.”

Ifs Wells Would Be America Turns Discovery Aliens Outcomes Native Native American Columbus Native Country Space Aliens Discovery Of America

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.”

“DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.”

Men May Names Chance Heard Fashion He Man Native Latter Peter Ireland Printed

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect”

Self Force Violence Despair Complexes Fearless Self Respect Native Inaction Inferiority Cleansing Inferiority Complex

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.”

Law Father Native Native American Our Father Great Spirit Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Indian Wisdom

Author:Chief Joseph

“We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.”

Home Might Land Brother Praying Dignity Native Refuge Brothers And Sisters Native Land Live Without Fear

Author:Pope Francis

“The working people are bound to their native shores.”

People Bounds Shoes Native Shore

Author:Benito Mussolini

“The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.”

“As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”

People School Remember Justice Streets Died Vain Soil Native

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.”

Has Beens Term Rights Birth Citizens Equal Protection Distinction Native Entitled Precise Adopted Equal Rights Equal Protection

Author:James K. Polk

“It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.”

Land Conditions Duty Huge Complexes Environmental Preserves Islands Parks Native Sustainability Interaction Continuity National Parks Continuity Of Life

Author:William Kittredge

“Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.”

Community Environmental Native Pollution Focal Point

Author:Winona LaDuke

“So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.”

Long Stills Pieces Native Sunlight Native American Elders Mist Native American Wisdom Native America Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom American Spirit Native American Spiritual Native American Proverbs

Author:Chief White Eagle

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.”

Ifs Wells Doe Ideas War Reason Whole Might Guy Computer Notion Warrior Indian Native Description Native American Salesman Pacifist Dubious

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.”

School Father Grew Grew Up Boxes My Time Boxing Native Grandfather Native American Uncles My Grandfather Boxers Oklahoma Wrestler

Author:George Tahdooahnippah

“My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.”

Men Want Has Beens Facts Able Issues Healthy Tired Historical Dues Damage Native Affected Educate Nurse Wounded Indigenous Educator I'm Tired Aboriginal Reluctance Healthy Relationship

Author:Marilyn Dumont

“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.”

“I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American?”

People Knows Littles Stories Use Wanted Consciousness Edges I Realized Mythology Chinese Greek Native Legends Native American Egyptian Celtic Norse

Author:Michael Scott

“I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.”

Whole Might Used Environment Who You Are Weather Native Native American Verbs Invoke

Author:Anne Waldman

“I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.”

People Knows Bits White Knowing Greater Pieces African American Native Native American American History Bits And Pieces African American History

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.”

Children Book Young Speak Teacher Effects Adults Profound Young Adult African American Native Native American Publishers Librarian American Author

Author:Pat Mora

“One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.”

Way Enjoy Produce Cost Advantage Management China Chinese Native Suppliers

Author:Tulsi Tanti

“When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and certainly the native peoples of California who still have their communities intact, it is what they have always known: that we are not apart from nature but a part of it.”

People Looks Stills Community Known California Native Rio

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.”

People Mean Different Seems Bits Pieces Modern Amount Population Significant Native Native American Dna Bits And Pieces Neanderthals

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.”

Men May Light Government Spirit Culture Wish Hours Justice Path Humility Proud Diversity Glory Social Justice Forests Native Rough Shed Obscure Gloomy American Government Great Spirit

Author:Black Hawk

“A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.”

Life Believe Humans Moments Human Beings Existence Mood Peaceful Permanent Native Stormy Tenors Blithe

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Firsts Ideas Character Past Science Consciousness Doubt Conscious Army Originals Every Man Doctrine Native Elephants Sweetness Drunkenness Whiteness Hardness

Author:John Locke

“A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.”

Writing America Education Native Earthquakes Comets

Author:John Adams

“My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away”

Children Long Reason Spirit Teach Land Soil Native Native American Carried Away Great Spirit

Author:Black Hawk

“What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.”

Earth Heaven Born Spring Seats Native

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.”

Source: Abigail Adams: Letters

“That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.”

Mean States President Born United United States Influence Security Citizens Capable Constitution Native Adopted Plague Provision

Book:Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union

Source: Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union

“Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!”

Country Night Sun Sea Land Flight Thee Native Farewell Good Night Native Land Country Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.”

I Can Country Life Is Water Growing Land Sight Native Awkward Native Land Country Love

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.”

Mind Spiritual Spirituality Masters Keys Indian Native Sri Lanka Spiritual Indian Infinitive

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.”

Giving Kind Spirit Social Behavior Clouds Breathe Ease Native Temper Disposition Cheerful Gentleness Brows True Religion Cloudy

Author:Hugh Blair

“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.”

Men Want Made Feelings Views Common Principles Failing Share Conditions Duty Reflection Arise Native Gentleness

Book:Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

Source: Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

“The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.”

Used Enemy Wall Stranger Native Suspicious Vicinity

Book:Outlaw of Gor: Gor

Source: Outlaw of Gor: Gor

“There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.”

Ifs Soul Moving Native Native American

Author:John Oates

“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”

Three Walks One Thing Land Movement Possibility Republican Thousand Independence Convinced Miles Native Ireland Thousand Miles Native Land

Author:James Stephens