"In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately."

-- Leonard Peltier

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“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely...”

Source : Joseph Delaney (2014). “Last Apprentice 3-Book Collection: Revenge of the Witch, Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer”, p.39, Harper Collins
“That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.”
“You can't do comedy with a beard.”
“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”
“Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.”
“There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.”
“The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.”
“One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.”

Source : Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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