Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservations surrounded by the society that destroyed their civilization, and are still stigmatized. For decades and decades, for hundreds of years except in Indian schools, they weren't allowed to speak their language. That stigma takes a terrible toll.


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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life exper...
JOSHUA FOER
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM
Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or thro...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the s...
JOSHUA FOER
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resi...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN
I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
JOSHUA BELL
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN
In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the worl...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By...
JOSHUA FOER
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was st...
JOSHUA SLOCUM
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
JOSHUA FOER
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
JOSHUA FOER
Enough is as good as a feast.
JOSHUA SYLVESTER
Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to giv...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writin...
JOSHUA FOER
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was thi...
JOSHUA COHEN
In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South ...
JOSHUA BELL
I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning ...
JOSHUA COHEN
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons wh...
JOSHUA BELL
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious me...
JOSHUA FOER
We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m...
JOSHUA BELL
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,...
JOSHUA ROMAN
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN
Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man h...
JOSHUA SLOCUM
My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing...
JOSHUA FERRIS
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively ea...
JOSHUA FOER
Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD
We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations a...
JOSHUA BEKENSTEIN
The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes...
JOSHUA FOER
It's not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in...
JOSHUA FOER
I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer fo...
JOSHUA COHEN
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock your...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good...
JOSHUA BELL
I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I...
JOSHUA BELL
I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don'...
JOSHUA BELL
I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I ha...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fin...
JOSHUA FERRIS
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and b...
JOSHUA BELL
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the conf...
ANTHONY JOSHUA
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovieti...
JOSHUA COHEN
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn&#...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
JOSHUA KAI