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“At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.”
Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
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“Humility is royalty without a crown.”
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“For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.”
Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
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“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.”
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“If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.”
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“The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.”
Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
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“Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.”
Source : Source: counterjihadreport.com
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“That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.