"You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered."

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Source : Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

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“While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.”
“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press
“Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”
“The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary”
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.”
“No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.
“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”
“Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?”

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