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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
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"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer."
"When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around."
"I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices."
"The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow."
"You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me."
"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."
"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being."
"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers."
"To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see."
"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself."
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