“ PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives. ”
- Malcolm Boyd- Copy
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“ And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. ”
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“ The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. ”
- Saxby Chambliss- Copy
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“ Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society… ”
- John Kennedy- Copy
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“ What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. ”
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