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I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. – 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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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – 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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Theres a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. – Arthur Scargill

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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. – Claiborne Pell

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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. – Joseph Conrad

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Thats one strength that Stevie has. Shes really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. – Lindsey Buckingham

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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. – Johann von Goethe

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