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In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
Eduardo Galeano
Indians
Were
Discovered
America
Natives
Lived
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
W. H. Davies
Good
Invention
Starve
Others
Resource
Fraternity
High
Attain
Fail
Make
Enable
Beggars
America
Often
Ends
Where
Natives
Esteem
Succeed
Them
Held
Originality
Tongue
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
P. J. O'Rourke
Strange
World
Care
Digital
Too
Digital World
I Care
Seem
Cases
More
Computers
Thumb
Head
Study
Like
Sciences
Odd
Close
Than
Human
Natives
Little
Social
Flexible
Social Sciences
Societies
The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
Adam Cohen
Technology
Degree
Important
Other
Pandora
Moral
Seeing
About
Remarkable
Because
Integral
Natives
Story
Which
Avatar
Show
Fully
Beings
Thing
Fundamentally
Necessity
A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
Adoniram Judson
Work
Long
Easily
Direct
Somewhat
Journals
Employ
Employed
Missionary
Make
His
Person
Natives
Interesting
Among
Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.
Adrienne Mayor
Looking
Other
Teeth
Horns
About
Russian
Records
Trade
Encountered
Sources
Historical
Ivory
Canada
Mammoth
Natives
Asked
Explorers
Show
European
Fossil
Compete
The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn't have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn't need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.
Andy Dunn
Future
Internet
Digital
Starts
Born
Vertical
Brand
Squarely
Get
Native
Natives
Customers
Younger
Millennials
Adapt
Need
The fact that millennials are fast at communication and expect transparency and don't feel comfortable with hierarchy gets interpreted as us being impatient or entitled. These traits are perfectly normal given that we're the first digital natives.
Caroline Ghosn
Communication
Digital
Entitled
First
Hierarchy
Impatient
Given
Fact
Perfectly
Feel
Comfortable
Normal
Expect
Traits
Gets
Being
Natives
Us
Transparency
Fast
Millennials
Interpreted
We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They're our first digital natives, and they're willing to learn quickly.
Caroline Ghosn
Digital
Gender
First
Our
We Cannot
Willing
Solve
Solving
Stem
Learn
Without
Quickly
Natives
Cannot
Gap
Millennials
We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.
Charles Sturt
Great
Interior
Seen
Few
Side
Would
River
Had
Days
Come
Passed
Opposite
However
Camp
Any
Natives
Us
Apparent
Many
Evening
Alarm
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
David Ben-Gurion
Great
Few
Others
Philosophers
Spinoza
Generations
Robert
Scientists
Were
Freud
America
Natives
Einstein
Europe
Last
Jewish
The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.
Derek Walcott
Strength
Heights
Trees
Caribbean
Draw
Spice
Laurel
Like
Natives
Organically
Working
Sea
On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
Eden Robinson
People
First
Anchored
Visited
Vancouver
Brought
Wrote
Known
Were
Encounter
Discovery
Ship
Salmon
June
Eight
Natives
Them
Who
Large
Evening
Published
Two
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
Edward Sapir
History
Age
Events
Tribal
Made
Type
Relative
Statements
Evidence
Direct
Personal
Legends
Personal Information
Formal
Natives
Regarding
Information
Whether
Formed
Themselves
Sequence
Second
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
F. Sionil Jose
Old
Churches
See
Tourists
Well
Cultural
Achievements
Want
Natives
Whether
Museums
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Henry A. Wallace
Buy
People
Speak
Will
Way
Latin
Latin America
Latin American
Tell
Imperialism
Countries
Goods
Like
Most
Learn
Because
Yankee
Wages
America
American
Natives
Much
Act
Reason
Fascists
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
Henry Hudson
Good
People
Good People
Fire
Saw
Broke
Would
Threw
Remain
Taking
Supposed
Pieces
Bows
Arrows
Very
Afraid
Natives
Them
Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
Howard Rheingold
Digital
Extraordinarily
Savvy
Some
Natives
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz
Class
People
Jews
Ruling
Ruling Class
Struggling
Part
Piece
Caught
Imposed
Tragedy
Up
Same
Natives
Which
Land
European
Helpless
Two
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
John Hanning Speke
Travel
Trust
Sorry
Too
Though
Shall
None
Climate
Foreigners
Trying
Africa
Natives
Afterwards
Again
Ever
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.
Jonathan Dee
Culture
Think
Those
Possessing
Characteristics
Charisma
City
Lies
Through
Volatile
Shared
Tourism
Primarily
True
Mass
New
Know
How
York
May
New York
New York City
Natives
Flattering
Them
Us
Certain
Who
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Lewis H. Lapham
Dangerous
Country
Must
Dressed
Detroit
Badly
Like
Look
Obviously
Well
Foreign
Foreign Country
Natives
Suburb
Then
Dallas
Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.
Margarita Simonyan
Home
Before
Russian
Hear
Hearing
Children
Natives
Against
Ethnic
Streets
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
Mario Benedetti
Positive
Writing
World
Dictatorship
Think
Positive Thing
About
Only
Various
Around
Spread
Came
Continue
Exile
Natives
Places
Them
Thing
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
Martin Yan
Hope
Problem
Hong Kong
More
Taiwanese
Never
Divisions
Put
Between
Kong
Lot
Up
The Problem With
Natives
Chinese
Really
United
I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.
Michael Hastings
People
Care
Country
Difficult
Think
About
Make
Another
Very
Natives
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