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I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK...

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Quote by Dean Acheson

Get my money from the church, sell all my property, get...

Get my money from the church, sell all my property, get the money for Indiana, and sell the condominium.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about commerce, money

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light, then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about music, rocks, eyes, light

Few passages of history are more striking than those...

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Quote by Francis Parkman about history

Fort Laramie is one of the posts established by the...

Fort Laramie is one of the posts established by the American Fur Company, who well-nigh monopolize the Indian trade of this whole region.

Quote by Francis Parkman about commerce, companies, americans

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, people, bad luck, thinking, bad, things

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Quote by George Pataki about power, work

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, ...

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

Quote by Mike Pence about style, people

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Quote by Li Peng about country

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Quote by Dee Brown about opinion, destruction, paradise, earth, life

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