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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
Tecumseh
People
Become
Year
Spring
Greedy
White
Every
Our
Our People
Exacting
Cost
Atonement
More
Wrong
Between
Make
Shed
Greatest
Oppressive
Blood
Up
Yielding
Chiefs
Whether
Them
Lands
Large
Lives
Right
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence
Soul
Nothing
Sweet
Live
Difficult
Bitter
Exacting
More
Make
Than
Much
Body
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Deepak Chopra
Work
Hard Work
You
World
Become
Ambition
Outcome
Exacting
Seeking
Laws
Attachment
Driving
Material
Material World
Same
Hard
Plans
Apply
Stressful
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Love
Character
People
Language
I Love
Exacting
Fine
German
Traits
Many
Swiss
Expressive
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
Karl G. Maeser
Myself
Me
Man
Exacting
More
Shall
Am
Conduct
Than
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
Life
Fall
Real Life
Meet
Characters
Possibly
Bad
Moral
Exacting
Bad Habit
About
Habit
Could
No-One
Know
Readers
Real
Overly
Often
Being
Fictional
Flaws
Standards
Beings
Novels
Apply
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston
Broken
Old
Later
Exacting
Crop
Crops
Similar
More
Well
Does
Than
Any
May
Often
After
Meadows
Land
Planted
Waste
Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.
Marcia Gay Harden
You
Humanity
Beauty
Whatever
Differences
Stature
Embrace
Exacting
Sexual
Embracing
About
Economic
Color
Beauties
Lord
Walking
Anybody
Regardless
Race
Really
Who
Creed