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Up to 1868, nearly four hundred treaties had been signed by the United States government with various Indian groups, and scarcely a one had remained unbroken.

— Peter Farb Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)

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Freedom of speech does not exist anywhere, for every community on earth forbids the use of certain sounds, words, and sentences in various speech situations.

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Culture is all the things and ideas ever devised by humans working and living together.

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What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.

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An unusual manifestation of it is when the whole dominant culture takes up the ways of the conquered.

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For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife.

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