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With the strong, happy sense that both great and small are so surely enfolded in His magnitude that, without a miss, each has his allotted individual ground of opportunities, I am buoyant with good nature.

— Zitkala-Ša American Indian Stories (1921)

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Use the words that come to you, that which is in the heart and mind.

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