"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."

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Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

Zebulon Pike

“I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”
“I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.”
“As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.”
“Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.”
“It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.”
“Anytime you step out of an embedded reporting situation, you're always making calculations about what's safe and what's not safe, feeling out the edges of your life, of what's possible, and what risks you're putting everyone else to.”
“A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right”
“If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.”

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