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| #411 | | No people are all bad, just as none are all good.
Tecumseh, (Shawnee) to his nephew Spemica Lawba 1790
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| #412 | | My reason tells me that land cannot be sold - nothing can be sold but
such things as can be carried away. Black Hawk, (Saulk)
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| #413 | | Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the
earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his
children? Tecumseh, (Shawnee)
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| #414 | | Free yourself from negative influence. Negative thoughts are the old
habits that gnaw at the roots of the soul.
Moses Shongo, (Seneca)
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| #415 | | ...everything on this earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure
it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
Mourning Dove, (Salish 1888-1936)
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| #416 | | "Der bestirnte Himmel über mir und das moralische Gesetz in mir"
that is
"The starry sky above me, and the Moral Law inside me."
- The epigraph on Kant's tombstone.
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| #417 | | The words fly away, the writings remain.
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| #418 | | I am what you will be; I was what you are.
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| #419 | | The people rule.
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| #420 | | Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future
pleasure.
-- Virgil
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