"When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans."

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Source : "Philipp Meyer on 'The Son'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. June 8, 2013.

Philipp Meyer

#Native American Quotes #People Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.”
“Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they not? Once you make this person scramble around the house looking for her car keys and finally find them, get in the car, and run into traffic, we can identify with her enough that when she stops the car and pulls the gun out of her purse and heads in to kill somebody, we'll be with her as much as is possible.”
“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
“I'm very spontaneous.”
“Loser loser Double loser whatever as if get the picture DUH!”
“What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.”

Source : "The Ladder of Perfection". Book by Walter Hilton translated by Leo Sherley-Price, July 5, 1988.
“Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.”
“There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.”

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