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| 9e843cd | Remember, then, if you deem what is by nature slavish to be free, and what is not your own to be yours, you will be shackled and miserable, blaming both gods and other people. But if you deem as your own only what is yours, and what belongs to others as truly not yours, then no one will ever be able to coerce or to stop you, you will find no one to blame or accuse, you will do nothing against your will, you will have no enemy, no one will h.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0b6693c | An even more important intertribal gathering took place at the Grand Dalles of the Columbia River, the home territory of the Wishrams, Wascos, and other peoples. It was the most important point of contact between Coast and Plateau cultures. Here was the cosmopolitan center of Northwest Indian life, site of great month-long trade fairs analogous to those held in medieval Europe, a time for trading, dancing, ceremonial displays, games, gambli.. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 249e3c1 | Jesus had upset the temporal authorities, and political consequences would surely follow. | Jay Parini | ||
| ba285df | Once it was believed that the Coast culture was essentially an extension of that of Asia. Anthropologists now argue that it was derived from that of ancient Eskimos and spread through the interior to the coast. Although no definitive answer is yet possible, it has been documented that Indian civilization on Washington's northwestern coast has existed continuously for nearly six thousand years, and some scholars estimate that human habitatio.. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 8ac81e2 | That Euro-Americans ultimately prevailed over Indians was less a matter of warfare than of disease. It was neither the guns of the whites nor their whiskey that really decimated the Indian population, but their germs. Violent | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| d69af1e | Over a three-year period the Chinook population declined to one-tenth its former size, and riverbanks were strewn with the unburied dead. "The depopulation here has been truly fearful," observed the physician John Kirk Townsend in his eyewitness account of the lower Columbia River in 1834. "A" | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 4ff4b80 | The crisis at Nootka thus sparked the first cabinet-level foreign policy debate in the United States under the new Constitution of 1787. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 108c4a1 | A popular quip in geographically divided Idaho is that the state has three capitals: Spokane for the northern half, | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 61f522d | The Coast peoples were hunters and gatherers. The land and sea around them was so rich in food that they did not need to cultivate crops. Their only domesticated animals were dogs, used mainly for deer hunting or for fibers: one woolly breed of dogs was kept in pens and sheared twice a year. Anthropologists once considered cultures so heavily dependent upon naturally occurring products for their sustenance to be primitive in comparison to t.. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 0dec53c | But life in the Coast culture area was hardly idyllic. Warfare aimed at driving out or exterminating another lineage or family was an established practice in the northern portion of the region. Peoples to the south carried on feuds much more limited in violence and extent. After a successful attack, the northern warriors sometimes beheaded their victims, brought the heads home, and impaled them atop tall poles in front of their villages. On.. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| a9ac64f | It was believed that salmon represented a race of supernatural beings who dwelled in a great house beneath the sea. When a salmon died, its spirit returned to its place of origin, and thus it behooved humans not to offend the salmon people by the careless disposal of their bones. If the bones were properly returned to the water, the being resumed a humanlike form without discomfort and could repeat the trip next season. All | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 80534f6 | Canadian missionaries promoted legislation in 1884 that made giving or assisting in a potlatch dance a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison. That law remained on the books until 1951. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| 2ed5930 | Because whites only poorly understood that decentralized arrangement, they eventually forced the notion of a single tribal chief upon the Indians. Prior to Euro-American intrusion, the Nez Perces had a permanent governing council, a political organization that could speak for all of them, but they had no head chief empowered to sign away their lands in treaties. | Carlos A. Schwantes | ||
| daf6f05 | Albania] is a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America. | Albania | ||
| a18169f | The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in its writing. | Albania | ||
| 004ecf3 | The men who marched to Babylon, Persia and India were the ancestors of the Albanians... | Albania | ||
| f9bf0b9 | We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her. | Albert Camus | ||
| cdb1f73 | With rebellion, awareness is born. | Albert Camus | ||
| c5f88f8 | I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine. | Albert Camus | ||
| bcd7cec | Great novelists are philosopher novelists -- that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. | Albert Camus | ||
| be60ad1 | Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. | Albert Camus | ||
| 2bef0c3 | Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me. | Albert Camus | ||
| 28eb33b | The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. | Albert Camus | ||
| 407abb4 | The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live. | Albert Camus | ||
| 8a28537 | E. Kruglikova, who in real life might never have met him (I have no confirmed information on this), smiled lustrously; she was wearing a formal black dress and a necklace of frozen tears. Their friends applauded, thereby imitating static on a clandestine radio. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| d04b93a | To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being. | Albert Camus | ||
| 72b5d90 | If the world were clear, art would not exist. | Albert Camus | ||
| ad888b8 | One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. | Albert Camus | ||
| a74549a | Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. | Albert Camus | ||
| 877d18b | A fate is not a punishment. | Albert Camus | ||
| dfdc46c | The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. | Albert Camus | ||
| 66c5e85 | An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. | Albert Camus | ||
| 3ca0874 | The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. | Albert Camus | ||
| f774959 | 'I'm glad to know he's [Paneloux] better than his sermon.' | Albert Camus | ||
| dcfdd8e | Other days, though, my writing is like a person to me--the person who, after all these years, still makes sense to me. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 80965f8 | 'At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.' | Albert Camus | ||
| ad69576 | there are more things to admire in men than to despise. | Albert Camus | ||
| 5b2089e | A growth hacker is someone who has thrown out the playbook of traditional marketing and replaced it with only what is testable, trackable and scalable | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e19d8ff | Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties--hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure." --SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 10.4b" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 08d4eb4 | thinking about A. J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle. One rainy night, a reporter asked him, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" "Oh," Muste replied, "I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me." -- | Anne Lamott | ||
| f85bb7d | what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with them in their hopeless pain and feel terrible with them, without trying to fix them with platitudes; doing this with them is just about the most gracious gift we have to offer. We give up what we think should be doing, or think need to get done, to keep them company. We help them to bear being in time and space during unbearable .. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b8b9ebc | My brothers and I were not encouraged to search for God, the obvious source of solace, but we three kids were led to the world of books, which to us was just as good. We found in books the divine plop, the joy of settling down deeply into something, worlds and realities greater than our own troubled minds. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d9d8f3f | Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7ccf11a | what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with them in their hopeless pain and feel terrible with them, without trying to fix them with platitudes; doing this with them is just about the most gracious gift we have to offer. We give up what we think we should be doing, or think we need to get done, to keep them company. | Anne Lamott |