"There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Joseph Boyden

#Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls.”
“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”
“Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.”
“I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.”
“War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”

Source : Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion
“There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.”
“The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.”
“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

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