Quote by Black Elk
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, a

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. – Black Elk

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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. – Black Elk

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Fear
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Black Elk
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. – Black Elk

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power
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Black Elk
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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. – Black Elk

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alone
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher

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Time

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. – Lil Wayne

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Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges

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I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five oclock in the morning. I am not like that. – Roberto Cavalli

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history. – Martin Luther

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There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. – Ray Bradbury

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