Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Topic: Life
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.