Nelson A. Miles Quotes
Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
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A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.
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I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.
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I love all people; I hate no one.
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Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.
