Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]"
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Tribes
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Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him."
Saul
Religious Leader
"My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."
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"Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go."
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"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes."
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"Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all."
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"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."
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"Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes."
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"Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself."
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"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible."
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"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
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"Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person."
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"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves."
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"In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe."
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"If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all."
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"The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all."
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"You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful."
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"We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe."
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"I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life."
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"The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people."
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"Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work."
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"Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!"
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"For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes."
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