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Letter "P" » peoples
«The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.»
«The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month»
Author: Robert Lee Hotz
| Keywords:
antiquity, apparent, arisen, Celtic, gene, genetics, homo, Homo sapiens, interbreeding, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, oxford, peoples, people of England, Red hair, sapiens, suggested, suggests, The Gene
«The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.»
Author: Stewart L. Udall
(Secretary)
| About:
Native Americans
| Keywords:
common touch, elemental, ethic, life-giving, native, Native American, peoples, primitive, trait
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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and so, and so forth, attendant, attendants, circumstances, civilization, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, fired, forth, For each, hatred, institutions, in short, operate, operate on, passionate, peoples, respective, ruled, savage, savaged, savagery
«The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
America and Americans
| Keywords:
absorption, conquest, peoples, the Wilderness, wilderness
«The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.»
«Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
bigotry, cry, demonstrates, demonstrating, Die Trying, eat, introduce, introduces, introducing, peoples, prevent, travel
«Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
bend, collective, peoples, statesmen, The Collective
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