"The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy."

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Source : Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

Susanna Moodie

#Country Quotes #Native American Quotes #Men Quotes

“A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.”
“If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.”
“Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.”
“Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.”
“If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437”
“We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.”
“In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil theorem. I said I found it amazing that gauge fields are exactly connections on fiber bundles, which the mathematicians developed without reference to the physical world. I added, "this is both thrilling and puzzling, since you mathematicians dreamed up these concepts out of nowhere." He immediately protested: "No, no. These concepts were not dreamed up. They were natural and real."”
“Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.”

Source : Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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