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"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country."
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"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"
War

"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
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"At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards."
Travel

"You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?"
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"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."
Justice

"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."
People

"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."
Language

"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
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