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Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

— Black Kettle Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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Although wrongs have been done to me I live in hopes.

The West : Who is the Savage? (2001)

The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some of them will not listen.

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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