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imagination and inventiveness are common human potentialities. All people invent.

— Ella Cara Deloria Speaking of Indians (1944)

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All progress depends on contacts and the resulting exchange of new ideas.

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All human progress was slow at the beginning, but at least it was cumulative as long as peoples could occasionally get in touch with each other.

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