"Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through."

-- Vine Deloria Jr.

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“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.”

Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.
“Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.”
“Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.”
“I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?”
“All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Source : "Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.
“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”

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