Quote by Black Elk
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had

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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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. – Black Elk

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power
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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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I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. – Merlin Olsen

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If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would… but its just impossible to get to everyone. – Dante Hall

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If the label presents them with a contract that the band dont want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. – Steve Albini

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Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. – Pythagoras

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