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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"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 looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."

"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."

"The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls."

"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."

"I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices."

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

"After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked."
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