"We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace."

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Source : "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

Black Kettle

#Peace Quotes #Home Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”
“I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.”
“That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”
“I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”
“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
“A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.”

Source : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail

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