"Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?"

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Source : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”

Diane Glancy

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“Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.”
“It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.”
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.”
“We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?”
“As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss....”
“By todayâ€™s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of todayâ€™s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”

Source : Letter to John Forster, 1850.
“Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.”

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