"The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste."

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Source : "Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"".

Chief Seattle

#Native American Quotes #Bed Quotes #Might Quotes

“Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.”
“If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.”
“But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...”
“I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.”
“Objectivity? I've always had an objective.”
“We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.”

Source : "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.
“If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”

Source : William Gaddis (1975). “J R”, Random House

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