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• When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
  -- Vine Deloria, Jr....
• During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe....
• It happened long ago In the new magic land The Indians and the buffalo Existed hand in hand The Indians needed food They need skins for a roof The only took what they needed And the buffalo ran loose But then came the white man With his thick and empty head He couldn't see past his billfold He wanted all the buffalo dead It was sad
  oh so sad. -- Ted Nugent, "The Great White Buffalo...
• When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• Ned: [singing] When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, "What will I be?
  Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?" Here's what she said to me...
• There's a comedian over here in Britain called Jack Dee who came out with a great string of Famous Last Words.
  He came up with the idea of a Black Box Recorder for cars, so that you could find out the last thing that was said in the car before crashing!...