"The white peopleâ€™s thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end."

-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

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“Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.”
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
“While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”
“We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
“I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.”
“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

Source : "Atomic Weapons and American Policy". Foreign Affairs (p. 529), July 1953.

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