"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk."

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Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown. Chapter 12, 1970.

Crazy Horse

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House
“We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.”
“As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.”
“I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.”
“Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?”
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
“Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.”
“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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