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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.
Black Elk
Good
Great
Me
You
Vision
Remember
Old
Dance
Seen
Mouth
Nine
Summer
Only
Horse
River
Had
Performed
Until
Came
Years
Eighteenth
After
Anything
Much
Near
Tongue
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
Black Kettle
You
Peace
Father
Our
Our Father
Hand
Want
Hold
Ask
Whites
Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma
Mind
Nirvana
Your
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma
Great
Fruit
Reward
Blessed
Past
Seed
Some
Great Reward
Fame
In The Past
Us
Should
Fortune
Planted
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
Time
Nature
People
Fools
Practice
Imagination
Thoughtlessness
See
Who
Imagine
Words are illusions.
Bodhidharma
Words
Illusions
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
Mind
Evil
Awareness
Prevents
Arising
Buddha
Either
Body
Means
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
People
Mind
Own
Outside
Deluded
Buddha
Realize
Searching
Keep
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
Bodhidharma
Language
Located
Buddhas
Understands
Real
Five
Six
Senses
Fictions
Anywhere
Body
Such Things
Whoever
Things
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Bodhidharma
You
Mind
See
Always
Just
Present
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
Bodhidharma
You
Free
Long
Lifeless
Form
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle
World
Power
Absolute
Sword
Axis
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
Great
Will
Men
Nothing
Great Men
Determined
Only
Without
Achieved
Ever
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
Life
Lion
Me
Made
My Life
Reading
All My Life
He
Been
Up
Influenced
Lambs
Ask
No nation has friends only interests.
Charles de Gaulle
Nation
Only
Friends
Interests
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
Together
Cheese
Country
Different Kinds
Unity
Out
Kinds
Only
Peril
French
Impose
Blue
Different
Bring
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
Charles de Gaulle
Me
People
Military
Diplomats
Only
Take
Bourgeois
Metro
Against
Who
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Chief Joseph
Great
You
Animal
Mistake
Think
Wild
Wild Animal
Indian
Some
Like
The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
Chief Joseph
People
Men
Seen
First
Country
White
Our
Our People
Kind
Clark
Brought
Never
Had
Named
Talked
Came
Were
Very
Straight
Your
Who
Many
Things
Lewis
Lewis And Clark
I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
Chief Joseph
Government
Men
Other
Only
Ask
Treated
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
Chief Joseph
People
Men
Country
White
Other
Our
Hundred
Besides
Indian
Some
Some Men
About
Faces
Winters
Know
Until
Came
Were
Did
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
Chief Joseph
Great
Gave
Clark
Guns
Horses
Had
Return
Which
Tobacco
Us
Many
Lewis
Needed
Lewis And Clark
My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
Chief Joseph
Man
Father
First
White
See
Through
Schemes
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph
Men
Greedy
Rich
White
Soon
Were
Very
Growing
Found
Fast
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph
War
Ought
Want
Avoided
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Claudius
Good
Better
Evil
Wish
Nothing
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