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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.
Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.
He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own; and the newshorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark, when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Don't lay any certain plans for the future; it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
