Powwows 2021 Quotes & Sayings

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control. — Fredrik Logevall

Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what's done for Christ will last. — Elizabeth George

With distractingly long, violet hair and a desire to be worshipped in every way possible, publicly, in some ways, she became my salvation. — A.J. Linn

Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams. — T.F. Hodge

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. — Donna Tartt

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe. — Abraham Lincoln

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen. — Stephen Jay Gould

For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the meal. — Auliq Ice

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. — Edgar Allan Poe

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there. — Garik Israelian

Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed. — Max Brooks

You cannot teach a person who knows everything. — Debasish Mridha

Is my faith so terribly pathetic that I have diminished God to the point that I doubt His ability to survive in the very world that He came to save? Indeed, I have done exactly that. And all I need to do to beat that mentality is to remember that a baby born in a manger with every disadvantage imaginable stills lives today. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject ... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual. — Susan Sontag

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person. — Claudio Naranjo